Quotes About Simplicity

Always cherish the simple things in life and people that treat you right! That is most important... Everything and Everyone else is simply insignificant...

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Be happy with the little that you have. There are people with nothing that still manage to smile.

You don't always have to try so hard. A thankful heart is so much more attractive than a thirsty heart.

Dear life, can we go back to when boys had cooties, homework was 2+2, and the drama was over who stole my crayons?

We are so used to multitasking, we are so addicted to overachieving that we forget that real happiness lies in simple things that take place in the present.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

The American Dream was so simple and so optimistic that it required no psychoanalysis, no deep sea-diving. It was as shallow, boring, and sentimental as a bad television show that had somehow become a hit.

The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.

Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at the same time.

He whose needs are the least will always be the nearest to God.

Solution is always simple once you have the technique.

The best way to spend the happiest life is to know nothing.

Those who say that simple things don't matter should ask a lion how he feels when a fly enters a nostril.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore

But what is it to me whether my chance is slight or great? I mean, must I consider this when I love? No—no reckoning; one loves because one loves. Then we keep our heads clear, and do not cloud our minds, nor do we hide our feelings, nor smother the fire and light, but simply say: Thank God, I love.

Dichiaro solennemente di non saperne nulla, ma dico che la vista delle stelle, mi fa sognare tanto semplicemente quanto quei punti neri che nelle carte geografiche rappresentano città e villaggi. E mi dico: perché i punti luminosi del firmamento dovrebbero esserci meno accessibili che i punti neri della carta di Francia?

Contudo, se queremos viver e trabalhar, é preciso ser muito prudentes e cuidar-nos. Água fria, ar, alimentação simples e boa, estar bem agasalhados, dormir bem, e não ter aborrecimentos

It does one good to read things like that, more than most of the stuff the decadents write, with their passion for saying the most obvious things in the most wildly contorted phrases.

I do not say - far, very far be it from me to say - that I myself have the rayon blanc, but I am not ashamed to say that it exists, this White Light - and that I seek it, and only this do I consider simplicity.

I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.

And this will remain my policy, and it is quite possible that I shall give up my studio before long and go live in a peasant's cottage, so as not to hear or see educated people - as they call themselves - any longer.