Quotes About Simplicity

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity?

The witnesses of Hester Prynne's disgrace had not yet passed beyond their simplicity. They were stern enough to look upon her death, had that been the sentence, without a murmur at its severity, but had none of the heartlessness of another social state, which would find only a theme for jest in an exhibition like the present.

The secret is, said Phoebe, smiling, that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens.

a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description for herself, and a simple abundance for her child.

the boy's tender and confiding simplicity discerned what other people could not see; and thus the love, which was meant for all, became his peculiar portion.

Me, I just want to wear ordinary clothes and not stand out.

The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.

Faraday's home was Spartan. Little decoration. Unimpressive furniture. Rowan's room had space for only a bed and a small dresser. Citra, at least, had a window, but the view was of a brick wall.

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. People will attempt to buy your friendship. They will lavish things upon you. Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

She is unaware of Hell and Purgatory And when the time comes for her to enter The black Night, she will look into the face of Death As a new-born child,—without hatred or remorse.

animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

The less I needed, the better I felt.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

It's so easy to be easy—if you let it.

I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

she wasn't very interesting but few people are.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.