Quotes About Simplicity

what if we just acted like everything was easy?

It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration.

Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.

The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.

They knew how to be content with the ordinary and the simple. There was something to be said for that, and if Anthony could only learn that sort of contentment, maybe he wouldn't need those deep-breathing

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

...A simple I love you means more than money.

Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Love is all you need.

Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I'm cheap!

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.