Quotes About Simplicity

Who was Col. Sussex? Just some guy who had to shit like the rest of us.

So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, and life was simple and without too much pain. Maybe without too much reason, but getting away from pain was reasonable enough.

The less i needed the better i felt.

He visto últimamente demasiados intelectuales. Estoy harto ya de esos genios insignes que tienen que soltar diamantes cada vez que abren la boca. Estoy harto de luchar por cada espacio de aire libre para la mente. Por eso estuve apartado de todos tanto tiempo, y ahora, al volver a ver a la gente, descubro que debo volver a mi cueva, hay otras cosas además de la mente: hay insectos, y palmeras y pimenteros de mesa, y yo tendré un pimentero de mesa en mi cueva, para reírme.

My only ambition is not to be anything at all; it seems the most sensible thing.

When you've considered everything, you've considered too much.

Unsurprisingly, the new techniques, uncomplicated and inexpensive, spread far and wide. The more people worked the soil, the richer it became, the more trees grew.

her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.

The overwhelmingly large number of investors should seek membership in the passive management club. This group, instead of scratching for a small edge in today's extraordinarily efficient markets, wisely accepts what the markets deliver. Charley makes a compelling case for the market-matching strategy of investing in index funds, touting their simplicity, transparency, low cost, tax efficiency, and superior returns. Winning

A naked man on a naked horse is a fine spectacle. I had no idea how well the two animals suited each other.

I no longer want a monastery which is too secure, I want a small monastery, like the house of a poor workman who is not sure if tomorrow he will find work and bread, who with all his being shares the suffering of the world.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario.

He floated along thinking he would like to love the world as it was, and he felt a great deal of accomplishment for the occasions when he did, since the other was so easy.

The act of posting a letter would become too complex with significance: a walk down the stair-way, over the door-stop, on to the side-walk, across the pave-ment and over to the mail-box. Common objects would dissolve into their primal states, each having an independent life.

around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

The devil fears a roof of thatch beneath which the church is at prayer more than he does a splendid church in which many masses are celebrated. " —SANCTORUM COMMUNIO

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

We see the same scenario all too often today. People are told the good news of salvation by grace alone, only to respond with, "That's too simple. Where's the dignity? Where's the effort? If it's all that life changing, surely something sacrificial is required of me!

This is rural England, after all; please set your watch back thirty years 

In general, economists tend to favor taxes that are broad, simple, and fair. A simple tax is easily understood and collected;

Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.

Doing one thing at a time and giving oneself wholly to doing it is the most efficient way one can possibly live, because there's no blockage in the organism whatsoever. When we live and work in that way, we are extremely efficient without being rushed. Life is very smooth.

I find excessive showering just for the hell of it overrated. I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret.