Quotes About Simplicity

It was a quote from Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays.

Henry David Thoreau's Walden, both

The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

You were born without any apps on your phone. Hey! Guess what? You were born without any phone at all. And life was still beautiful.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

To be a human is to state the obvious

When we take the external clutter away, we have to face the clutter inside ourselves.

paradox: The things you don't need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.

È la gioia più semplice, la più pura del mondo, penso, far ridere qualcuno a cui vuoi bene.

I'm not interested in. only or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in zoo.

This biggest and most profound shift happened not be becoming richer or more successful or more famous or by being amid the glaciers and polar bears of Svalbard. It happened by waking up in the exact same bed, in the same grotty damp apartment with its dilapidated sofa bed and yucca plant and tiny potted cacti and bookshelves and untried yoga manuals.

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It is the simplest, purest joy

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter

There is only one of us. And we are all smaller than an internet. To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.

I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in zoo.

Hayat? anlaman gerekmiyor. Ya?aman yeterli.

Viata e ceea ce ramane cand dai la o parte toate porcariile alea sau, cand le ignori o vreme.

At the sub-atomic level, everything is complex. But you do not live at the sub-atomic level. You have the right to simplify. If you don't, you will go insane.

Some paintings were no more than a single perfect brushstroke that conjured a simple yet breathtaking fish or stalk of bamnoo. Clay sculptures in various states of completion lined shelves at the far end of the gallery.

simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.

Biblical literalism is for the simple.