Quotes About Simplicity

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

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

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Simplicity is freedom.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

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.

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

Books and friends should be few but good.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.