Quotes About Simplicity

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.

Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer's.

I don't plan anything any more. I just live my life.

I need nothing I have everything I need I lie upon the coffin a doughnut in my hand

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking

Instead, someone decided to create little moments of beauty to do the simplest, smallest job in the world, because why shouldn't that be beautiful?

Nobody's that naive, she muttered. Nobody's that guileless. He's from Nebraska. Peabody scanned her pocket unit. From where? Nebraska. Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.

Simple doesn't mean unfulfilled.

I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true.

life used to be simple." "Mmm." "It did. Because it didn't have all these people in it." "If

I love you." His eyes met hers briefly, and it was there. The simplicity of it. The enormity of it.

How he wishes it could be true! He is tired of shadows, of complications, of complicated people.

Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.

Oh…man. She was dressed for love, as far as he was concerned: Flannel pajama bottoms with stars and moons on them. Little white T-shirt. Floppy suede moccasins.

A tire swing?

anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

Love is all.

Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

If you own a rug you own too much.