Quotes About Simplicity

Antes de la iluminación, corta madera y carga agua. Después de la iluminación, corta madera y carga agua.

Its true power lies in its simplicity.

On the best days, there'd be a new package of margarine, and Bethie would be allowed to break the capsule of yellow dye and squish it all around until all the margarine was yellow-colored.

There was no style in nature.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. 

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

There might be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Metiet lauk? grabažas, cilv?ki! Lai j?su dz?ves laiva ir viegla, lai taj? atrodams tikai visnepieciešam?kais - m?j?gs nams un vienk?ršas izpriecas. P?ris draugu, kas ir š? v?rda v?rti, k?ds, kas m?l j?s un kam j?s atbildat ar pretm?lest?bu, ka?is, suns un viena vai divas p?pes, pietiekami daudz ?diena un dr?nu, un mazliet vair?k nek? pietiekami - dz?rienu, jo sl?pes ir drausm?gs posts.

Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Throw the lumber over, man!  Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.

Io definisco la sua vera e propria saggezza, non soltanto per quanto concerne il nostro caso, ma anche riferendosi al viaggio che noi tutti compiamo lungo il fiume della vita. Quante persone, nel corso di tale viaggio, caricano la barca, al punto da farle correre il pericolo di colare a picco, con un intero magazzino di cose stupide ritenute essenziali per i piaceri e gli agi del viaggio ma che in realtà sono soltanto inutile ingombro!

Getta via il ciarpame, amico! Che la tua barchetta sia leggera, e porti soltanto ciò di cui hai bisogno.

How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things which they think essential to the pleasure and comfort of the trip, but which are really only useless lumber.

I love Amazon 1-Click ordering. Because if it takes two clicks, I don't even want it anymore.

Sometimes I want to go back to the old flip phone. One of those old-people ones that they advertise on TV with the giant buttons like floor tiles.

I remember thinking, "Well, but I wouldn't have to be that funny anyway. I would just have to be funny enough to buy a loaf of Wonder bread and a jar of Skippy peanut butter a week." I could easily survive on that.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. As I watched the sun come up this morning, I felt a new sense of kinship with it. Something primitive stirred inside me, something that remembers the rising sun by itself, before there were minutes and schedules and calendars, before there were even words like morning.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

And Palmer, he couldn't decide, or rather, he didn't want to decide. He simply wanted to enjoy: the bright spring day, the company of his friends. There was nothing he wanted to do—he simply wanted to be. But this was not something he could explain to himself, much less to the guys.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

He was ready to stop trying to matter; he was ready to simply live.