Quotes About Simplicity

He needs little who desires but little.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

I have cut away what I call the excess stuff in my life.

I get really excited thinking about being in the world without a lot of people.

Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

I'm lazy! For me, fashion has to be easy.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

I've never had my feet done and never had my legs waxed.