Quotes About Simplicity

DIALÉTICA É claro que a vida é boa E a alegria, a única indizível emoção É claro que te acho linda Em ti bendigo o amor das coisas simples É claro que te amo E tenho tudo para ser feliz Mas acontece que sou triste...

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

We embraced again, we wanted to engulf each other. We had cast off our families, the world, time, certainty. Clasping her against my gaping open heart, I wanted to draw Isabelle inside. Love is an exhausting invention. Isabelle, Thérèse, I pronounced in my head, getting used to the magical simplicity of our two names.

Living was simple: it was no more than a few habitual actions strung on to a routine.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

It's easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

Truth, my friend, is food, shelter, warmth, companionship, and living to see another sunset. There, damn you. How much more elemental can you get? That's Truth.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all1

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination.

He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination. What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.