Quotes About Simplicity

However, the desire to be enlightened can be a problem. It is when it is not all that important to you that you will attain enlightenment.

Discipline may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple—it is what binds your life together. Without discipline, life is made up of successive indulgences and confusions based on aggression, passion, and ignorance.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

The "rail splitter" from Illinois united the nationalism of Hamilton with the democracy of Jefferson, and his appeal was clothed in the simple language of the people, not

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

Complex problems do not demand complex solutions.

Be charming, and shut up!

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

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Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don't have to move an inch.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits.

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing is a simple way.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

There are those for whom life is a simple thing, an easy thing, an everyday thing; you write your letters, you "make love",you do "your business" and then you start again tomorrow with the same rules as yesterday, which is to avoid great savage joys as well as great sorrows

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. I wouldn't settle for less, yet I don't expect a whole lot more, either.