Quotes About Simplicity

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

A marsh pheasant has to walk ten paces for a bite to eat and a hundred for a sip of water. But still it wouldn't want to be tamed and put into a cage. Even treated like a king, it could never be happy and content.

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way And forget that the going is easy.

The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.

Practicing qigong is so simple and so powerful. You cannot do it wrong. You can only do it good, better, or best.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez ps decu

Aku tidak mempunyai sesuatu yang banyak, tetapi juga tidak membutuhkan yang banyak.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

He understood that she needed some time to get used to "them." He didn't. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn't need another week, another month, another year, to get things in perspective. He loved her. It was that plain. That simple.

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

era al di sopra di tutti ma non dipendeva da lui: aveva semplicemente dimenticato di desiderare

She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

We cannot enter the kingdom of peace with a six-shooter on our hip.

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don't know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

Que ninguém se engane: só se consegue a simplicidade através de muito trabalho.

I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.

There are those who have. And there are those who have not. It's very simple: the girl had not. Hadn't what? Simply this: she had not. If you get my meaning that's fine. If you don't, it's still fine.