Quotes About Simplicity

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

I cannot understand how humility exists, or can exist, without love, or love without humility

It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one's state of life, in order to enter the second mansion.

One of these is love for each other; the second, detachment from all created things; the third, true humility, which, although I put it last, is the most important of the three and embraces all the rest.

do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look

will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.

how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.

Technology takes processes of yesterday and makes it simpler, faster, accessible, and more cost efficient.

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.

All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you.

In the end, a simple true story beats a sophisticated theory; a testimony trumps an argument!

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

We were always together. And we were happy. Looking at clouds. Rocking on the swings. Lying in the sun. We loved being busy doing nothing.

the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.

Our Father, St. John of the Cross, says with great truth: "All good things have come unto me, since I no longer sought them for myself.

unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.