Quotes About Simplicity

When a traveler asked Wordsworth's servant to show him her master's study, she answered, "Here is his library, but his study is out of doors."

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'Å"uvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.

...the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of the wild world as a rock; But my spirit, propt with power, Make as simple as a flower. Let the dry heart fill its cup, Like a poppy looking up; Let life lightly wear her crown, Like a poppy looking down, When its heart is filled with dew, And its life begins anew...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail... Simplify, simplify.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Don't feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! — simplicity is saying yes to joy by saying no to overmuch overwhelm overdoing overhaving overbeing

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

...the height of sophistication is simplicity.

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

Prayer of the day: God, let the people of the world understand how they can embrace simplicity to save their lives.

I glanced at the business card before tucking it away: Deyan Dembeliev, telephone… Just a name and a phone number. Only extremely famous or extremely modest people could use such cards. Demby was not the latter.

There is a simple life, a life in solitude, which I had grown unused to. Eating bread at a wooden table, gathering up the crumbs and tossing them to the sparrows. Slowly peeling an apple with a pocketknife and realizing that this gesture exactly re-creates your father's gesture, which re-creates the gesture of your grandfather's. The place is not the same, nor the time, nor the hand. But the gesture remembers.

Es sind die kleinen Dinge, die die Welt vergrößern.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Kate as she was at home without varnish or furbelows.

The function of a good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

Graham spoke plainly and directly. Convinced that the average person had a working vocabulary of six hundred words, he made a point to stick with common words and short sentences. Though he never put it exactly this way, he instinctively grasped the import of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's recipe for rabbit stew: first "you have to catch the rabbit.