Quotes About Simplicity

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

that's it -- hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? a reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. it was more than that. i know it was more than that.

I guess I don't believe these thing can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

It's when you walk around the apartment in my boxers when you don't know I'm awake. And then that grin, when you do know I'm awake. You spend so much time in the morning making sure every hair is in place. But I have to tell you: I like it most like this, haphazard, sleep-strewn, disarrayed.

anyone can do more, but it will be our thing to do just one.

I think that this might be the easiest way to live — just concentrate On the small things, and never let your mind wander on big things

You have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

Supongo que no creo que estas cosas puedan ser fáciles, aunque tampoco veo por qué tendrían que ser difíciles.

Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean.

A lot of the time, love feels like it's about figuring out what the other person wants and giving it over. Sometimes that's impossible. But sometimes it's pretty simple.

but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

Todo era mucho más sencillo cuando no quería nada. Cuando quieres algo y no lo consigues...puedes convertirte en alguien muy cruel

Todo es tan sencillo que me dan ganas de flotar por el aire. Él se alegra de que lo haya encontrado. Yo me alegro de haberlo encontrado. No nos da miedo reconocerlo.

The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.

A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself. The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen—four hundred years afterward.

But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.

The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble.