Quotes About Simplicity

Effort. Thats the only thing I'm asking for. Its so simple yet people make it seem like its so hard.

Not every girl wants to be in relationship. Some just want good company, a guy to vibe with,converse and laugh with, not in a rush, start of simple, and let the rest left find itself. Having someone to talk to and feeling comfortable around them is quite beautiful, and it's a good feeling

Self-motivation is a simple process of being true to yourself and others alike with a real simplicity.

You don't have to level up your character to impress others... Just remain simple and true to yourself.. True people with true love will embrace the real you.

I don't need any material things just to be pretty and nice looking person to everybody. I just want to be Me, SIMPLE but a TRUE person.

Humble yourself, Be grateful for all you have been given, Cherish family & friends, Be honest with yourself & others, Live Simple, Love and Laugh Often.

I miss being a kid cause I trusted everyone. Didn't suspect anyone of doing any wrong.

É em geral com o nosso ser reduzido ao mínimo que nós vivemos, a maioria de nossas faculdades permanece adormecida, porque repousa no hábito, que sabe o que cumpre fazer e não necessita delas.

The most mysterious, most simple, most atrocious revealed herself in the answer which she made me with an air of disgust and the exact words to tell the truth I could not quite make out (even the opening words, for she did not finish her sentence). I succeeded in establishing them only a little later when I had guessed what was in her mind. We hear things retrospectively when we have understood them

One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Meus pobres pilriteirinhos!", dizia eu, chorando. "Vocês, só vocês não me dariam pesar, não me obrigariam a partir! Nunca me fizeram mal! Sempre hei de querer bem a vocês." E enxugando os olhos, eu lhes prometia, para quando fosse grande, não imitar a vida insensata dos outros homens, e, até mesmo em Paris, nos dias de primavera, em vez de ir fazer visitas e ouvir tolices, sair para os campos a ver as primeiras flores de pilriteiro.

opted in favour of simplicity, the arts, and magnanimity

But the words of Saint-Loup did not displease me since they recalled that pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.

Every day I set less store on intellect.

Mamma was the first person who had given her the pleasure of feeling that her peasant existence, with its simple joys and sorrows, might offer some interest, might be a source of grief or pleasure to some one other than herself. My

Time has a way of evening things out, the simple ways endure, and the fancy pants with his smart new way falls by the roadside. The best way to tell how long a thing will last is ask how long it's been around for. The newest things end soonest. And things that have been around for a good long while will last awhile to come.

such as a three-ingredient tomato sauce, a chicken with just two lemons, a soup with but a ladleful of cannellini, a pork butt braised solely in milk, a bluefish baked with garlic and potatoes, a pasta with a fistful of small scallops, Bolognese sauce, are drawn from the everyday meals Marcella cooked for her family.

Perhaps without my always being fully conscious of it, the dishes continued to evolve, moving always toward a simpler, clearer expression of their primary flavors, and toward a steadily diminishing dependence on cooking fat.

Marcella Hazan

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.