Quotes About Simplicity

Daisies. They outlast roses, and they're tough little flowers.

The furnishings she'd chosen reminded him of the woman who lived here. Nothing to admire, and yet he wished to be here. To stay here and be surrounded by rooms that settled him. He was at ease, and the longer he stayed, the more he found to like.

While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.

Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

It's just him and me and cookies.

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays.

I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

Lupin, like Mr. Huttle, has original and sometimes wonderful ideas; but it is those ideas that are so dangerous.  They make men extremely rich or extremely poor.  They make or break men.  I always feel people are happier who live a simple unsophisticated life.  I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

Life is both much simpler and more complicated than it appears to be.

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.

In the words of Chinese Zen master Layman P'ang (c. 740–808 A.D.): My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?