Quotes About Simplicity

Maybe faith has less to do with gaining knowledge and more to do with causing wonder. Maybe a relationship with God doesn't simplify your lives. Maybe it complicates our lives in ways that they should be complicated.

It sounds strange to hear people talk about the delights and miracles of technology, when they do not even begin to compare with what you can find in a riverbed.

These are all problems in non-equilibrium physics, the physics of complex systems, or, to coin a new term historical physics. If the laws of physics are ultimately simple, why is the world so complex? Why don't eco-systems and economies reveal the same simplicity as Newton's laws? The answer, in a word, is history.

The root idea of Sabbath is simple as rain falling, basic as breathing. It's that all living things—and many nonliving things too— thrive only by an ample measure of stillness.

you asked me to distill trading down to its simplest form, I would say that it is a pattern recognition numbers game.

Sometimes the easy way out is the right way in.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

Mohandas's marriage, which was arranged when he was thirteen, lasted for the next sixty-two years. Despite his enduring reputation for living a life of simplicity and self-denial, he did not come to this easily and struggled in his youth with uncontrolled appetites, both sexual and gastronomic. In violation of his family's religious code, he experimented with meat eating, hoping it would make him large and strong like the carnivorous English.

Il cibo nella sua forma migliore porta con sé memorie e riflessioni che vanno oltre il nutrimento e connette le persone che lo raccolgono alla terra da cui lo prendono, rendendo sacro il semplice atto di mangiare.

È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

E' il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

If you have to translate code to statements to understand it, it should probably be statements in the first place.

In general, simple is better than complex, explicit is better than implicit, and full statements are better than arcane expressions.

being, of living, and of dressing, the pleasures and the wants of yesterday are to him the pleasures and wants of tomorrow. Rich or poor, he puts on every morning the same woollen cloth, and lays it aside only when he has worn it entirely out, in order to purchase another

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order." He viewed economics through a Buddhist lens, asserting that "the essence of civilization [is] not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.