Quotes About Simplicity

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

So, if you're feeling down, confused, or shaken, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. If you're feeling elated, vindicated, or boastful, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. It's withstood the test of time, because it works.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Be as rich as to afford a modest, care-free existence.

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

There comes a time when you declare truce with pains, joys, and expectations alike – a kind of statement that I need to live like trees, like grass, like stones.

in which letters are written / not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand / but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

Give me dragons any day; I understand their ways far better than those of my fellow human beings. We make our world much too complicated

Simple is elegant and extremely efficient.

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

But the more I see of the damage simplistic thinking can do, the more I admire and cling to John Keats's notion of "negative capability" which he defined as the capacity to dwell in ambiguity or paradox without any "irritable reaching after fact and reason." To allow room for wonder, speculation, uncertainty.

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

Learn to ignore everything

... security is not having things

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.