Quotes About Simplicity

Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falcified.

Should I seek out some tree? Should I desert these form rooms and libraries, and the broad yellow page in which I read Catullus, for woods and fields? Should I walk under beech trees, or saunter along the river bank, where the trees meet united like lovers in the water? But nature is too vegetable, too vapid. She has only sublimities and vastitudes and water and leaves. I begin to wish for firelight, privacy, and the limbs of one person.

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and wind in her hair– he took her bag.

A solidão faz homens de talento ou idiotas. [...] A solidão domina os ânimos simplices, complica-os, enche-os de horror sagrado.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

Easy, you know, does it, son.

Dimly, I recall running up to his chair to show him a pretty pebble, which he slowly examined and then slowly put into his mouth.

az ostobaság ugyanis mindig a zsúfoltság szinonimája, és semmi sincs jobban tele, mint egy üres fej.

To love with all one's soul and leave the rest to fate, was the simple rule she heeded.

Aquello que se escribió con esfuerzo se lee con facilidad

He wants everything to be so simple—as, alas, it never is in real life!

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse

Unless the technology makes buyers' lives dramatically simpler, more convenient, more productive, less risky, or more fun and fashionable, it will not attract the masses no matter how many awards it wins.

The theory that any idea that takes more than ten minutes to communicate is probably too complicated to be any good

the reason buyers love these blue ocean offerings isn't because they involve bleeding-edge technology per se, but because these offerings make the technology essentially disappear from buyers' minds. The products and services are so simple, easy to use, fun, and productive that buyers fall in love with them.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

The sage wears rough clothing and holds the jewel in his heart.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.