Quotes About Simplicity

Life is too short not to be happy. So make the most of simple moments. Appreciate kindness. Let go of negativity and people who bring you down.

"The more people I meet, the more I like my dog."

A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

"All that you are is all that i'll ever need."

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.