Quotes About Simplicity

But in America's small towns, life hadn't changed much in a hundred years. There were few roads. Most people were farmers. Kids worked alongside their parents, and went to one-room schools. Toilets were outside, pits dug in the ground.

To urinate, they simply stood and faced the ocean wherever they could be sure that the wind would

You live an insular existence, going from your soundproofed cars to your air-conditioned, insulated houses. People would not say God is dead if they only looked up at the spectacular panorama of the night sky, or had an unobstructed view of the sunset.

One important method is to avoid labyrinthine conspiracy theories and thoughts you cannot stop.

Evil loves complications, labyrinths and byzantine conspiracy theories. Ernest Holmes wrote: The truth is simple, direct and always self-evident.

The more complex your lives become with intellectual machinations, piles of paper, and social intrigue, the less you are aware of the Simplicity of the Moment.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.

It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.

By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales.

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It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales. For

Moody had never thought much about money, because he never needed to. Lights went on when he flipped switches; water came out when he turned the tap.

that she never hung anything because when she wasn't working, she wanted the white space. Palate cleanser, Pauline would explain.

Practicality was baked into their bones. They wasted nothing, especially not time.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

Mutluluk, birbirini tamamlayan ufak tefek ÅŸeylerin birikmesinden doÄŸuyor.

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.

Eventually we must give up trying to be something special.

There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

A sense of knowing, or seeing, always happens. If you are willing to acknowledge its existence, there is the potential of being wakeful, open, and precisely there constantly. This is not based on being a sharp person, a smart person, or a very careful person. Rather, it is about being a person who can actually be—by yourself, very simply.

The practice of meditation is not so much concerned with the hypothetical attainment of enlightenment, but with leading a good life. In order to learn how to lead a good life, a spotless life, you need continual awareness that relates with life constantly, directly, and very simply.