Quotes About Simplicity

Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. Ä°t's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. Ä°t's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. Ä°t's a part of me that's been lost.

He glances up again, and recognizes Gregory's design. It is a system of holy simplicity: big papers on the bottom, small ones on top.

He, Cromwell, says to his visitors, just tell them this, and tell them loud: to each monk, one bed: to each bed, one monk. Is that so hard for them?

Henry stirs into life. "Do I retain you for what is easy? Jesus pity my simplicity, I have promoted you to a place in this kingdom that no one, no one of your breeding has ever held in the whole of the history of this realm.

Occam's Razor shaves you closer.

I found an easier way to be.

Every possession is a loss

Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Creo que es necesario para nosotros como seres humanos aprender más de la naturaleza y, con gran humildad, regresar a los fundamentos básicos de los alimentos.

We'll drive backwards in what will become your new car to the beach where we first slept side by side. The green waves will go back into the ocean, yellow and blue. You'll pull up my underwear. I'll button your shirt. We'll dress and dress and dress. Then we'll step into our footprints and erase our trail.

Sometimes we develop grand concepts of what happiness might look like for us, but if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of happiness in every breath that we take.

Când vine vorba de aman?ii unei femei, se aplic? îndeob?te aritmetica negrilor australieni: ei num?r? doar pân? la trei. Tot ce dep??e?te trei se cheam? "mul?i".

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

One fine morning, I awoke to discover that, during the night, I had learned to understand the language of birds. I have listened to them ever since. They say: 'Look at me!' or: 'Get out of here!' or: 'Let's fuck!' or: 'Help!' or: 'Hurrah!' or: 'I found a worm!' and that's all they say. And that, when you boil it down, is about all we say. (Which of those things am I saying now?)

The whole place looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing. never the cause of pain.

The whole places looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing, never the cause of pain.

Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.

The braided weeds and briars of her hair fall around her, serving as a cape. Large black eyes peer out from the tangle. She wears a gown of drab cloth and bark. When she moves, I see her feet are bare. Rings shine on several of her toes.

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.

La vida sencilla y mecánica conduce a una cordura insensata ahogando nuestra inteligencia con el trabajo, en tanto que la vida pasada en el vacío de las abstracciones o en los abismos del mundo moral lleva a una loca cordura. En una palabra: matar los sentimientos para vivir hasta muy viejos o morir jóvenes aceptando el martirio de las pasiones. Esta es nuestra sentencia.