Quotes About Simplicity

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

He does not need anything. He does not want anything.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

the doctrine of non-attachment.

Life is easier without imperatives.

The first is about spiritual living. I think it's plain. Ordinary people do it, and they don't even know they are doing it. In the middle of plain lives, with regular joys and griefs, they live with grace and kindness and are happy.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

She could never feel love for him. Love was what she felt for birds—a free gift, unrequired, unrequited, invulnerable.

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)And all shall be well andAll manner of thing shall be wellWhen the tongues of flame are infoldedInto the crowned knot of fireAnd the fire and the rose are one.

I built my hut in a zone of human habitation,Yet near me there sounds no noise of horse or coach. Would you know how that is possible?A heart that is distant creates a wilderness around it.

It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

And so it has taken me all of sixty years to understand that water is the finest drink, and bread the most delicious food. and that art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.