Quotes About Simplicity

The world is reduced to a sheet of paper on which nothing can be written except abstract words.

Tengo un librito, mucho más breve que los de Aristóteles y Ovidio, en el que están contenidas todas las ciencias y cualquiera puede, con poquísimo estudio, formarse de él una idea perfecta: es el alfabeto;

You reason too much. Why in the world should love be reasoned?" "To love you you more. Everything increases its power if you do it by reasoning." "You live in the trees and you have the mentality of a lawyer with gout." "The boldest enterprises should be experienced with the simplest heart.

Ma, assorbito da quella musica, il suo grande dolore si coloriva, diveniva ancora più importante, pur facendosi semplice, puro, perché mondate d'ogni avvilimento.

Anche l'ingenuità è vita, anzi, il vero esordio fresco e fragrante della vita.

Per me i miracoli esistono e non esistono. Non bisogna complicarli con troppe storie. Bisogna crederci o non crederci ed in ambedue i casi le cose sono molto semplici.

THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.

P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

Nikada više ne planiram. Ja samo živim ovaj život. Ponekad kako želim, ponekad kako moram. Sitnice mi boje život. Sitnice su sre?a. Zato ja volim male stvari. I velike torbe. Svuda ih sa sobom nosim, jer sebi dugujem još poneku šetnju izme?u o?ekivanog i neplaniranog.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

toothbrush and dental powder; a mattress and cover, two sheets, one pillow case. An instant after

Never Send Out a Line-Item Budget Again

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

The Book Booth There's not a big selection, It's not locked for protection, But at the intersection Of Booth and Telephone, Two customers politely Can snuggle in it (tightly) And go once over (lightly) The books they'd like to own. "Readcycle" means you leave one - A book you love. Retrieve one... Who knows? You might receive one You haven't read before. Hats off to the committee For such an itty-bitty Library in the city, Which proves that less is more.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

I would urge the principle of self-limitation in regard to wealth," and he made this "plea to the wealthy": The first step to take, it they would set themselves right, is to live in the midst of superfluous wealth as if they were not the possessors of it; that is, to take for their own use only what they require for the essentials of a civilized life, and to regard the rest as a deposit for the general good, of which they themselves are not to be the beneficiaries.