Quotes About Simplicity

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

Das Leben, dachte Michel, müsste eigentlich etwas Einfaches sein; etwas, das man wie eine Aneinanderreihung endlos wiederholter kleiner Rituale erleben kann. Rituale, die etwas albern sein durften, aber an die man trotzdem glauben konnte. Ein Leben ohne große Erwartungen und ohne Dramen.

Del amor me cuesta hablar. Ahora estoy seguro de que Valérie fue una radiante excepción. Se contaba entre esos seres capaces de dedicar su vida a la felicidad de otra persona, de convertir esa felicidad en su objetivo. Es un fenómeno misterioso. Entraña la dicha, la sencillez y la alegría; pero sigo sin saber por qué o cómo se produce. Y si no he entendido el amor, ¿de qué me serviría entender todo lo demás?

El efecto beneficioso de la compañía de un perro proviene de que es posible hacerlo feliz; pide cosas tan simples, su ego es tan limitado...

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing, in any other civilization, in any other epoch, could compare itself to the mobile perfection of a contemporary shopping center functioning at full tilt. I had thus consumed, with joy, shoes most notably; then, gradually, I had grown weary, and I had understood that my life, without this daily input of basic, renewable pleasures, was going to stop being simple.

Eu suspeitava que o que o atraía no mosteiro não era tanto a possibilidade de escapar ao chamamento dos prazeres carnais, mas sobretudo a possibilidade de se livrar da esgotante e taciturna sucessão de pequenas preocupações da vida quotidiana (...). Ao menos, no mosteiro, dão-nos cama, mesa e roupa lavada - e como bónus, no melhor dos casos, a vida eterna.

Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île.

Acaba büyüdüÄŸüm için miydi? Eskiden ayn? yerlerde toplad???m mantarlar galiba bugünkülerden çok daha güzeldi. GeçmiÅŸin yald?zl? sisleri, en basit ÅŸeyleri mükemmele dönüÅŸtürüyorsunuz!" O, ErmiÅŸler Bayram? Mantarlar?

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Fair and unfair are for children

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

Money and sex are two of the most challenging aspects of life to declutter, but extremely worth the trouble.

Try to enjoy every day, but know that you will not. Try to forgive others and yourself. Forget the bad stuff, remember the good. Eat cookies, but not too many. Challenge yourself to do more, to see more. Make plans, celebrate when they pan out, persevere when they don't. Laugh when things are good, laugh when things are bad. Love with abandon, love selflessly. Life is simple, life is complex, life is short. Your only real currency is time—use it wisely.

It's - just Bishop." "You have only one name?" Unless he was a rock star or a chess piece, it was another sign that he was having trouble thinking straight.

Mickey Mehta says, "If you are deep rooted in humility you get better fruited in simplicity thus MickeyMizing your personality with adulation!" Share this for getting more humans grounded.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

La verdad? La verdad [...] es acaso algo terrible, algo intolerable, algo mortal; la gente sencilla no podría vivir con ella.