Quotes About Simplicity

She'd always found animals easier to understand than humans; they were so refreshingly straightforward and real.

She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.

Contempla la bellezza nelle cose semplici: il sole che sorge da quell'immensa, scintillante distesa d'acqua che è il mare; sorge ogni giorno in modo nuovo, come fosse la prima volta. <> dice nel suo cuore, perchè sente la fresca brezza sulla nuca. Ma più volte sente l'inutilità di tutto ciò, perchè davanti a lui si stende un silenzio spaventoso, una vastità, dalla lunghezza e larghezza e profondità incommensurabili. Il nulla

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Similarly, in A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Burke depicted the investigation of the springs and the tracing of the courses of the passions as part of a larger search into 'the general scheme of things', in so far as the goal was to reduce the complex to 'utmost simplicity', and thus 'communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity'.

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

He always felt different once he was across the river. This was the real, old, deep country, now. Home country. The cabins looked different to him, a little older and poorer and simpler, a little more homelike; the trees and rocks seemed to come differently out of the ground; the air smelled different.

he was warmed by the simplicity with which she got up for him, thoroughly awake.

For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.

Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

We all want to de-clutter. To throw things out. But a minimalist lifestyle is bullshit unless you can do it across every sheath in the daily practice: not just physical, but also emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Guardate, la verità ha un volto semplice: basta che uno apra gli occhi.

Only an idiot would fail to see God in a meal!

She had done as much as possible to create a stable, gloriously dull life for herself

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?

The worthiest among human beings, said Diogenes according to Stobaeus (3.86.19), are those who despise learning and prefer a state of ignorance-ignorance understood not in the sense of not knowing anything, but in the sense of dispensing with unnecessary learning and acquiring only the knowledge that is sufficient for a good and simple life. This is what Diogenes identified as the only meaning and purpose of philosophy.

La felicidad cabe en tres principios, a cuál más simple: vivir en el presente, valerte solo de ti mismo para ser feliz y permanecer impasible ante la adversidad.

Según los griegos, lo perfecto, debe ser cerrado, limitado, contener solo aquello que necesita para serlo. Lo infinito es defectuoso.

If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story.

As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. —Francis of Assisi