Quotes About Simplicity

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

Jack's house was crayon art and blaring cartoons and the smell of casserole. Ethan

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that. And neither should a good story. A good story ought to leave a little grey behind, I think.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world." "And that, my lord?" "Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.

The lilacs grew with no care given them, and in the early summer they hung like bunches of mild mauve grapes from branches with leaves like dark green hearts, and the scent of them was so bold and sweet you could smell nothing else, a seasonal mercy.

The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile.

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

I will never understand the whole world or even one country. All I can do is try to understand the truth and lies in the simplest choices I face every day.

True goodness is like water. Water helps the ten thousand things without itself striving. Water flows down into the low places men despise, for water is in the Way

He asked so little of life that its frugal bounty amazed and delighted him.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

But the love of man for man is a far more tender thing, and so simple that it is universal. To love in this way is not the privilege of any especially prepared intellectual class, but lies within the reach of all men.

In their simplicity they asked of Him, "Master, tell us who shall be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" To which Christ, caressing the head of a little child who, with reverent, wondering eyes, looked into His face, replied, "Whosoever shall become as one of these little ones, he shall be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." Now

The simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. This

Dante gives excellent advice to teachers when he says, "Let thy words be counted." The more carefully we cut away useless words, the more perfect will become the lesson. And

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.