Quotes About Simplicity

At least on the Ketty Jay he was surrounded by people who asked no questions, people untrained in the aristocratic arts of vicious wit and backstabbing. He rather liked that about them, actually.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

cuando dice que no pasa nada, lo que quiere decir es que sabe que puede sobrevivir con lo mínimo.

The time wasted, the energy squandered on meaningless possessions, the compromises...

When I think about what would make me happy, I am struck by how basic my desires are. I want to feel that I'm progressing through life; I want a meaningful relationship and an engaging career. I want to live in a place that feels like home. What I want is what everyone wants - so ordinary as to be cliched. Why is that so hard to find?

I try to think the simpler thing; it's easier that way. But then life complicates it, two minds living and thinking in the same small space. You think you've placed a thought or a memory so you can live with it, and then that other mind comes crowding in and knocks it down.

Freedom and simplicity are close companions; simplicity teaches us the ways to release the layers of complexity and confusion that blind us.

The path to wisdom is to dress up and stay home.

Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country, Is worth a month in town...

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusy heather.

Song" Two doves upon the selfsame branch, Two lilies on a single stem, Two butterflies upon one flower: Oh happy they who look on them. Who look upon them hand in hand Flushed in the rosy summer light; Who look upon them hand in hand And never give a thought to night.

I went into the little church, all golden in the autumn sunlight, to say a prayer. Since then, I have visited the most beautiful cathedrals in Europe but they cannot make me forget that simple little house of God.

Learn to understand the real beauty of simplicity.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Non è che siamo degli emarginati, è che abbiamo imparato cos'è che non ci serve.

THE BEAUTY OF VALUE INVESTING is its logical simplicity. It is based on two principles: What's it worth (intrinsic value), and don't lose money (margin of safety).

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

Güzel bir söz vard?r: hiçbir ÅŸey. Hiçbir ÅŸey düÅŸünme. BaÅŸbakan? düÅŸünme, Katolikleri de düÅŸünme. Küvette aÄŸlayan, terliklerine kahve damlayan o palyaçoyu düÅŸün.