Quotes About Simplicity

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer. ("Mind Over Murder")

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")

For her part, she knew she was plain. She didn't make herself up or pay a whole lot of attention to how she looked. It didn't seem worth her time.After all, she had no real interest in dating.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Be who God called you to be. Live for the an audience of ONE.

Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given objective with tremendous results.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.

Por qué es que los que tienen tan poquito a menudo parecen tener tanto? ¿Y por qué es que los que tienen tanto parecen tener tan poquito de lo que en realidad importa?

To be great at a few things and experience it, you have to say no to many things.

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.

No form of submission to God could be simpler or clearer than just showing up at church on Sunday.

The key to life is simplicity, The key to simplicity is wisdom, The key to wisdom is choice.

In practice, science is often guided by a search for unifying ideas that are as simple as possible and that connect many different observations with as few explanations as possible.

Happiness comes in small peaces. Stop looking for it, before you'll get lost. Don't expect too much, or you'll make room for disappointment. Take life as it is and you'll enjoy it!

Contigo la milpa es rancho y el atole champurrado.

All we wanted was the simplest things: to eat good food, to sleep at night, to smile, to laugh, to be well.

Sin embargo recuerdo: una vez en mi juventud fui feliz compartiendo el único cigarrillo en un cuarto de pensión fui feliz haciendo el amor a la intemperie entre los juncos fui feliz sin hotel ni casa ni teléfono ni lencería de encaje. Tenía solo dieciocho años.

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Whoever established that standard is deluded. Men are meant to be hard, women soft. It's as simple as that.

contemplative prayer is simply a wordless, trusting opening of self to the divine presence. Far from being advanced, it is about the simplest form of prayer there is. Children recognize it instantly—as I did—perhaps because, as the sixteenth-century mystic John of the Cross intimates, "Silence is God's first language."1