Quotes About Simplicity

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time." "I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.

Mats har ingen hemmeligheter. Det er derfor han er så hemmelighetsfull. Ingen må forstyrre ham, han må få være uforstyrret i en forenklet og ren verden.

Todo se complica más cuando se quiere ser propietario de las cosas

När jag blev trött på det ena eller det andra gick jag till vedbacken ett tag. Vedbackens idé är alldeles klar; att såga och hugga med gott samvete, att få vara ifred, att det luktar gott och att det för en gångs skull blir vad man har tänkt sig.

Are you tired?" Wladyslaw asked. "Yes." "Then I won't say much more. Just one thing - and now, my friend, you must give me your complete attention. it is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that. No?

I'm going to sleep outside. I don't want a bed. Beds are stupid.

What has happened now is that I've fallen madly in love with a woman. And it seems to me so absolutely natural and genuine – there's nothing problematic about it at all. I just feel proud and uncontrollably glad. These last weeks have been like one long dance of rich adventure, tenderness, intensity – an expedition into new domains of great simplicity and beauty.

Well," said Hodgkins, "perhaps he is really interested in everything, only he doesn't overdo it. For ourselves there is always one single interest. You want to become. I want to do. My nephew wants to have. But the Joxter just lives.

Mumintrollets pappa hade aldrig känt sig så lugn och så absolut nöjd med allting. Det var egentligen skönt att ingenting behöva säga och ingenting förklara, varken för sig själv eller andra. Man bara satt och såg mot horisonten och hörde vågorna klucka under båten.

Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls vara isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.

Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls var isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.

I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

I went into the woods with nothing to tether me to this world- to remember how to listen- to remember how to see- Someday I hope to stay who I am in the woods when out of them- Aware- Grateful- Awed

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.

Her whole life she always pictured falling in love being full of nervous emotion, peaks of romance, and the excitement of wondering if he loved her as much as she loved him. But maybe love was simpler. Maybe true love was finding someone you could talk to with ease, whose heart cared for the same things, and whose dreams could meld with your own.

The older you get, you will come to the realization that happiness in life is not always about having the best of everything. Some people are happier with less because they choose to make the best of what they have.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

It is not easy to speak of people and land in simple terms beginnings with a beginning and ending with an end.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

8:58 We go to McDonald's. The woman in front of me in line spends more than five seconds contemplating her order. This infuriates me, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?? MC-SEABASS?? IT'S THE GODDAMN MCDONALDS'S MENU, IT'S BEEN THE SAME FOR TEN YEARS! IT'S ALL MCSHIT!JUST ORDER!

Jump in the river' was Tsunami's solution for everything. Bored? Aching bones? Dry scales? Brain overstuffed with the history of the war? 'Jump in the river!