Quotes About Simplicity

Cossette, al saber que era hermosa, perdió la gracia de ignorarlo; gracia exquisita, porque la belleza realzada por la sencillez es inefable, y no hay nada más digno de adoración que una inocencia deslumbradora que lleva en la mano, sin saberlo, la llave de un paraíso.

Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved

The gravedigger's work is charming when done by a child.

Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien etrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-meme arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.[71]

He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, and

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.

Tantôt il bêchait la terre dans son jardin, tantôt il lisait et écrivait. Il n'avait qu'un mot pour ces deux sortes de travail, il appelait cela jardiner.

Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux! Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps!

Tout y est sobre, exact, nu, précis, correct. Un phare est un chiffre

This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.

Duerme. Y, aunque el destino le dio andadura extraña, vivía. Y se murió cundo perdió a su ángel; sin más, sencillamente, le sucedió ese trance, como llega la noche cuando el día se marcha.

Il passaggio da bovaro a carmelitano non ha nulla di stridente: si passa dall'uno all'altro senza gran fatica. Il fondo comune d'ignoranza del villaggio e del convento è una base che mette il contadino allo stesso livello del frate; tenete un po' più grande il gabbano, ed avrete un saio.

Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

She is so certain of everything. This war is black and white for her. Nothing seems to scare her.

Love wasn't a great, burning brushfire that swept across your soul and charred you beyond recognition. It was being there, simply that.

My life. It's enough.

farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you realize that it is beyond those acres or in your distant past, back in the realm of TiVo and cubicles, of take-out food and central heat and air, in that country where discomfort has nearly disappeared, that you were deprived. Deprived of the pleasure of desire, of effort and difficulty and meaningful accomplishment.

Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch...

Being alone is simple. I like the freedom of knowing that I don't have anyone to rely on and no one's relying on me. There's a clarity to it that you can't get anywhere else.

Puesto que se enteraría por su propia experiencia de que el jardín era el perfeccionamiento supremo de la idea del jardín, ya que la mejor forma de definirlo era afirmar que su creador había "alcanzado la simplicidad", al tratarse de un jardín, escribía el autor con notable apasionamiento, que expresaba lo infinitamente simple mediante fuerzas infinitamente complejas.