Quotes About Simplicity

It is my suspicion that people who are glamoured by big cities and think of themselves as urbane and thoroughly metropolitan are at heart country mice—simple, fearful, overdomesticated provincials, dazzled by city lights.

Monasticism is not about dogma; it is about God and an authentic spirituality. Its simple truths beckon to be rediscovered.

Ordinary gestures, done with simplicity and purity of heart, take on new meaning

She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to make use of anything at hand; they were almost vain of their ability to go without water, food, and shelter. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the peasant both, it should be written out and placed in the city square for all to see, it should be written simply and in the language of the common people, lest the people grow weary of their burdens. The young man tipped his head toward the Captain with an odd look on his face, It was a kind of longing, a kind of hope. Who said that? Hammurabi.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Love simply is.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them

Why do they make things so complicated? So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand., he said. Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value. It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures. But a love with no name and no explanation like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course, but simply flows onwards. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you

It's the simple things in life that are the most extaordinary;

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.