Quotes About Simplicity

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

That plan was easier plus 100 percent less murdery. And I liked it better.

For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

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It is a fortunate and astonishing fact that the fundamental laws of our fantastic fidgety universe are based on relatively simple equations. If it were otherwise, we surely would know less than we know now about how our universe behaves, and Newton and Leibniz would probably never have invented (or discovered?) calculus.

There is no greater work of minimalist art than the dry garden in the Zen Buddhist temple of Ry?an-ji, Kyoto. This comprises fifteen rocks of various sizes set in a sea of white, raked gravel; almost nothing, but you could look at it for hours. It was made about 500 years before the modernist architect Mies van der Rohe remarked that less is more.

Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

No one should be deceived by the glamor of the ceremonies and entangled in the multitude of pompous forms, and thus lose the simplicity of the mass itself

I rejoice greatly that the simple faith of this sacrament is still to be found, at least among the common people. For as they do not understand, neither do they dispute whether accidents are present without substance, but believe with a simple faith that Christ's body and blood are truly contained there, and leave to those who have nothing else to do the argument about what contains them.

Men simplify the world with words and thoughts, and that's how they create their certainties; and having certainty is the most potent pleasure in this world, far more potent than money, sex, and power all combined. Renouncing

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

How had I never noticed before how dear she was? How dear, in fact, was everyone in my village, and every house and tree and garden. How comforting the whisper of the wheel of the mill, the clanging of the smith's hammer, the lowing of the cattle, the laughter of the women.

I like playing my guitar when I expect nothing from it.

Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn't pull its weight.

Constant addition without subtraction always make a mess.

The ability to subtract features is the rare gift of the true communicator.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions. ~ Olivia Rutledge from The Beach House