Quotes About Simplicity

Now that I have definitely begun to live I find myself more and more convinced that civilization with its trappings and artificialities is not so good as nature.

I think I like wildflowers best, " I explain. "They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow." (Richelle)

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they neither toil nor spin yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.

There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.