Quotes About Simplicity

D. zaczyna? cokolwiek widzie?, gdy siada? przed ekranem swojego komputera. Mia? wtedy przed sob? porz?dek i niesko?czon? harmoni?, prostot? dróg, które prowadz? do celu, jasno?? wyborów, ogromny potencja? my?li. Zaraz za tym do?wiadcza? spokoju, jaki bierze si? ze ?wiadomo?ci bycia wolnym. W pewnych granicach. Ale czy mo?na mówi? o jakichkolwiek granicach, kiedy tworzy si? ?wiaty?

Birds seem to be the happiest creatures on earth, yet they have none of what we call the comforts of life.

I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

The naked every day he cladWhen he put on his clothes.

There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become the sardonic bark of disbelief. Absurdity is the new sublime

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Plain food is quite good enough for me.

I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.

God's love for humanity wraps the spiritual in the perceptible, the superessential in the essence. It gives form … to what is formless and, through a variety of symbols, it multiplies and shapes Simplicity that has no shape. Dionysius the Areopagite Divine Names, I, 4

La littérature est un théâtre à ciel ouvert qui permet de transformer les êtres les plus simples en héros universels, loin des parterres présomptueux. Conrad, Le Voyageur de l'inquiétude

A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow

show) with the character tan (single). That is to say, the character for zen means "to show singleness of mind.

His own clothes were simple but always clean and neat. When some hippies argued that this was not "natural," Omori said nothing but pointed to a nearby cat, busy cleaning and smoothing its fur.

This teaching of O Yomei reminds me of "Kyosho Dofu (Ching-ch'ing Tao-fu) and the voice of rain drops" as told in Article 46 of the Hekigan Roku (Pi-yen Lu).

However wildly this year's cherry blossoms bloom, I'll see them with the plum's scent filling my heart.

But if it's only a short time, my instinct and my need is to keep things simple and just

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

just as a brilliant strategy is worthless unless it is implemented, a powerful strategic principle is of no use unless it is communicated effectively. When CEO Jack Welch talks about aligning employees around GE's strategy and values, he emphasizes the need for consistency, simplicity, and repetition.