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Quotes About Simplicity

My darlings, I give you this wedding wish: may your wedding day not be the happiest day of your life. May those be the simple days, the ordinary days when the sky looks so pretty, or your baby smiles at you, or your spouse laughs at your joke, and your heart is filled with simple and pure contentment. And may those days number in the thousands.
~ Kristan Higgins
they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING...
~ Kristan Higgins
Bryce was a typical man—he didn't know what he needed; he just knew what he liked.
~ Kristan Higgins
That was all. It was enough
~ Kristan Higgins
I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.
~ Kristin Cavallari
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
~ Kristin Hannah
Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simple-mindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it.
~ Carl Jung
We may live in an age when everything has to be "radical" and "revolutionary." For Luther the most radical thing one could do was to learn the basics of the faith with the simple trust of a little child.
~ Carl R. Trueman
Christian theology, in other words, always has a certain ineradicable complexity, which has serious implications for the modern evangelical predilection for simple and very brief statements of faith.
~ Carl R. Trueman
Most people fantasize that if they won the lottery, they would quit their jobs and immerse themselves in leisure, play, family, parenthood, occasional thrilling sex; they'd eat when they were hungry and sleep whenever they felt sleepy. Many people, if they won the lottery and got rich quick, would want to live like elephants.
~ Carl Safina
Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.
~ Carl Sandburg
Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity
~ Carl von Clausewitz
he stressed that the main feature of science is economy of thought;
~ Carlo Cercignani
se c'è un modo di essere materno, dove non traspare nessun sentimentalismo, questo era il suo:
~ Carlo Levi
Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.
~ Carlo Rovelli
The world is strange, but simple
~ Carlo Rovelli
An idea was needed, a great idea, a grand vision, to grasp the hidden order of the world. Leucippus and Democritus came up with this idea. The idea of Democritus's system is extremely simple: the entire universe is made up of a boundless space in which innumerable atoms run. Space is without limits; has neither an above nor a below; is without a center or a boundary. Atoms have no qualities at all, apart from their shape. They
~ Carlo Rovelli
Perhaps on closer inspection it is not the [Standard Model] that lacks elegance. Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.
~ Carlo Rovelli
I lived in a big bunkhouse of thirty farm workers with Leroy, who was a stranger to me in many ways because he was always talking about unions and unity. But he had a way of explaining the meanings of words in utter simplicity, like "work" which he translated into "power," and "power" into "security." I was drawn to him because I felt that he had lived in many places where the courage of men was tested with the cruelest weapons conceivable.
~ Carlos Bulosan
Que a felicidade não dependa do tempo, nem da paisagem, nem da sorte, nem do dinheiro. Que ela possa vir com toda simplicidade, de dentro para fora, de cada um para todos. Que as pessoas saibam falar, calar, e acima de tudo ouvir. Que tenham amor ou então sintam falta de não tê-lo. Que tenham ideais e medo de perdê-lo. Que amem ao próximo e respeitem sua dor. Para que tenhamos certeza de que: "Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Casas entre bananeiras mulheres entre laranjeiras pomar amor cantar. Um homem vai devagar. Um cachorro vai devagar. Um burro vai devagar. Devagar... as janelas olham. Eta vida besta, meu Deus.
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade