Quotes About Simplicity

One goal of the Let It Go way of downsizing is for you to surround yourself with only a manageable number of possessions that you cherish and treasure, which trigger good emotional responses, like joy, relaxation, focus, and motivation.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

7. THE KEY TO SUCCESS IS COMPASSION In his new adaptation of the Chinese sacred text Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell offers a provocative take on Lao-tzu's approach to leadership: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies

Por eso soy partidario de la filosofía del difunto Satchel Paige, que afirmaba: «A veces me siento y pienso y otras, simplemente, me siento».

In his new adaptation of the Chinese sacred text Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell offers a provocative take on Lao-tzu's approach to leadership: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ZEN PROVERB

All the Heebs asked was to be let alone; they simply did not want to be bothered by life, and each year they shed more and more of the complexities of living. Returned, Baines reflected, to the mere vegetable, which, to a Heeb, was ideal.

Dreamless, like an amoeba, he, too, slept.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions

He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.

Does he think the job of a librarian is so simple, so empty of content, that anyone can step up and do it for a thank-you and a cup of tea? Does he think that all a librarian does is to tidy the shelves?

She's innocent, and she loves easily.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

Who are they now? They are the simplest version possible of themselves... They are out from under everything ever piled on top of them.

Purity. Serenity. Simplicity. Seclusion. All one's concentration and flamboyance and originality reserved for the grueling, exalted, transcendent calling. I looked around and I thought, This is how I will live.

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.

Nathan called all shiksas Maria--the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…

More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

It's not rocket surgery!

It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.