Quotes About Simplicity

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

There's nothing unusual about love.

Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

We use such big words to move nowhere.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in…rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.

She had chosen me and it was as simple as that.

There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.

i'm easy to understand even when i don't understand myself...

Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

Një intelektual thotë një gjë të thjeshtë në një mënyrë të vështirë. Një artist thotë një gjë të vështirë në një mënyrë të thjeshtë.

Living was easy - all you had to do was let go. And have a little money. Let the other men fight the wars, let the other men go to jail.

They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say 'DEATH HAS TWELVE WINGS LIKE THE ANGEL OF HELL!' but people aren't built that way. You can only say 'Hey, uh, baby, why don't ya' make me a cup of coffee?

but when I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering and those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up and waiting I get quiet inside I get what other men get from other things I just feel better and it's good to feel better whenever you can not needing a reason.

Beware Those Who Seek Constant Crowds; They Are Nothing Alone

What is your philosophy of life?" "Think as little as possible." "Anything else?" "When you can't think of anything else to do, be kind.

cuando estaba en buena forma espiritual, después de comer lavaba el plato inmediatamente.