Quotes About Simplicity

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

There is a great beauty in little things.

There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

You want a better life? Simplify your life! Throw all the complexities from your life!

The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

The more we have the less we own.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough.

They who can go without all things, not needing them, are far more blessed than they who possess them in their need. That person is the best who can do without what they do not need.

Dac? singura rug?ciune pe care ai spune-o ar fi Mul?umesc, ar fi de ajuns.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

La gente parla solo per dar fiato alla lingua, e lei non ha più voglia di perdere tempo con le sciocchezze. Si è sottoposta a una terapia di disintossicazione dalle cose superflue. Mese dopo mese le cose importanti si sono rivelate sempre meno. Alla fine sono rimaste solo la salute, la libertà, la vita.

when we stop knowing how to use our hands to meet our most basic needs—we become estranged from nature, from the value and meaning of things, and from the empathy that we need to care for one another and our world.

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

I'd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga,' I say. 'Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?

Sometimes in life, it doesn't hurt to avoid over thinking things. Be like a leaf sometimes, and let the wind guide you. Refuse to be drawn into deep, negative thoughts that are sure to deter you.

Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer.

She wore a simple purple long-sleeved turtleneck, but streaks of white across her chest - flour perhaps? - distracted him, made him want to volunteer for cleanup duty.

In its easiness of grammatical construction, in its paucity of inflexion, in its almost total disregard of the distinctions of gender excepting those of nature, in the simplicity and precision of its terminations and auxiliary verbs, not less than the majesty, vigour and copiousness of its expression, our mother-tongue seems well adapted by organization to become the language of the world.

because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer, more explicit language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated." He went even further: "The language, too