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Quotes About Simplicity

Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.
~ Jodi Picoult
I don't think it's an invisible chromosome, or the inability to get pregnant, or anything else, that makes people so cruel to transgender folks. I think what they hate is difference. What they hate is that the world is complicated in ways they can't understand. People want the world to be simple.
~ Jodi Picoult
There was such art in the ordinary, it could leave you in tears.
~ Jodi Picoult
I found plain truth very interesting.
~ Jodi Picoult
I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.
~ Jodi Picoult
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
~ Jodi Picoult
Now, I'm wondering why those were ever even goals. We don't need those things to feel whole. We need to wake up in the morning. We need our bodies to function. We need to enjoy a meal. We need a roof over our head. We need to surround ourselves with people we love. We need to take the wins in a much smaller way.
~ Jodi Picoult
When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.
~ Shawn Lukas
I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.
~ Sarita Choudhury
To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
~ Donna Karan
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.
~ Emilia Fox
My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
~ Kenneth Branagh
A happy life includes finding joy in small things, less doing, and observing more.
~ Unknown
Life isn't hard. People with their needless complications and unnecessary lies make it that way.
~ Unknown
This is how it goes: I will respect those who respect me, and forget those who forget me. Simple as that.
~ Unknown
Whatever makes you feel bad, Leave it. Whatever makes you smile, Keep it. Simple as that.
~ Unknown
I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.
~ Unknown
Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.
~ Unknown
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
~ Lao Tzu
Everyone of us deserves to be with someone who make us happy somebody who won't complicate our life, somebody who knows our value, someone who won't hurt us.
~ Unknown
Being in love with your best friend makes so much sense. It should just come easy.
~ Unknown
Ya know what's the best? Being silly and sharing giggles with your bestie at 3 am.
~ Unknown
Growing up increases your ability to focus on important things as well as increasing your ability to let go of unnecessary things with less effort.
~ Terry Mark
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
~ John F Kennedy