Quotes About Simplicity

Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself.

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her, thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself. ---Nora Roberts Second Nature

Man needs the comfort of the simple as much as he needs the glory

They sat around the kitchen table, eating the sandwiches and drinking glass after glass of cold milk.

No stories were viral. No celebrity was trending. The world was still big. The country was still vast. You could just be a little person, with your own little life and your own little thoughts. You didn't have to have an opinion, and nobody cared if you did or did not. You could be alone on purpose, even in a crowd.

the increasingly common ideology that assures people they're right about what they believe.... is, however, socially detrimental . It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusion of simplicity that benefits people with inflexible minds. It makes the experience of living in a society slightly worse than it should be.

It was not nostalgia for a time that was more wholesome. It was nostalgia for a time when you could relax and care less.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

A house full of condiments and no real food. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

You wake up, and that's enough.

My gold­fish and me, both of us are just here swim­ming in one place.

When you travel a lot, you learn to pack the same for every trip. Six white shirts, two black trousers. The bare minimum you need to survive.

Si no sabes lo que quieres —continuó el porte­ro—, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.

Si no sabes lo que quieres, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

Si no sabes lo que quieres –continuó el portero–, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

he wanted to be happy the way a dog is happy.