Quotes About Simplicity

The fewer desires, the more peace.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.

Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

Peace is not found by seeking it but in simply letting it be.

.you can have little and be rich..

Music is the silence between the notes.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.