Quotes About Simplicity

I love a natural look in pictures.

The one thing a person wants most in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-i pierzi min?ile. Nu e prea greu. - E chiar o nimica toat?.

Le dimanche, les gens n'ont pas de sobriquet, on les appelle tout bêtement par leurs vrais noms qui ne leur vont guère mieux que ces habits qu'on garde avec soin pour quand on sera mort, bien pliés dans un coffre.

We had no money, but I felt we were rich: the pleasure of having some pecorino cheese, a few garden-grown tomatoes, and a liter of olive oil; of making love in the car, with Alba just sleeping quietly in the corner, was beyond wealth. There is no price for that. It was so impossibly beautiful - all three of us breathing the same rhythm, the days going by...

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

Tractors and boobs. There you have it.

The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.

Hoy fue un día feliz; solo rutina.

La sencillez es una de las virtudes más complicadas de este viejo mundo. Cuando uno es sencillo (en su habla, en sus actos, incluso en su poesía) corre el incómodo riesgo de ser tomado por tonto, por babieca.

No comprendo y basta. No quiero pensar en todo esto

Hoy fue un dia feliz. Solo rutina

Los pájaros escapan como amores y como amores vuelven a encontrarnos son sencillos como las soledades y repetidos como los insomnios.

Capitán: Pero ¿qué sos?, ¿un suicida? Pedro: Nada de eso. Me gusta bastante vivir. Capitán: ¿Vivir reventado? Pedro: No, vivir simplemente.

En este mundo tan codificado con internet y otras navegaciones, yo sigo prefiriendo el viejo beso artesanal que desde siempre comunica tanto.

For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world.

We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.

The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

The little house in Riverside... didn't really matter. I saw at once that houses in general didn't really matter. You didn't live in the house, you lived on the porch, you lived in the outdoors with the lovely air blowing in all the windows. The houses were not impressive and the town was not impressive, but the people were impressive.

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

In working through nonreligious language to explain that journey, the idea of place became very important. Jesus says, "Here's the deal! I'll leave My place. I'll come to your place. I'll take your place. And then we'll go to My place." This simplicity captured me. Everyone understands places. We all have them. It's where we live our lives day to day. Then Jesus walks into our place and redirects us.

what God loves more than anything else is childlike faith. It's our childlike faith, not our theological vocabulary, that moves the heart of our heavenly Father. It's simple childlike trust. It's the bedrock belief that God is bigger than our problem, bigger than our mistake, bigger than our dream.