Quotes About Simplicity

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work

You hear the bird's gurgling? Which pleasure! which charm! The field has by me a thousand charms.

Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Fue un alivio ir mirando el día de a dos.

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big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.

you can't say everything, the fact that you have to winnow your thoughts down to the essentials, means that you can get to the heart of the matter quickly.

I think that to achieve true adulthood is to understand the simplicity of things.

When you are thinking about what you want to say, it is often helpful to define it down, in your own mind, to a sentence or two.

Always reduce it down. This keeps it from having a false bigness in your mind, and allows you to get your hands around it. Another way to get a handle on what you want to say is to ask: What does this speech have to do? Every speech has a job, a reason for being.

There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.

Letting go is not about sacrifice, nor does it breed lazy inactivity; it's simply a return to Being. It is a shift from an assertive focus on action and results in a softer, intuitive state where you will "be with," notice, and appreciate what's in the moment with you. It's about moving from noise into silence. When done right, letting go is about centering, and it always leads to your home frequency.

There is nothing I need from the shop, and this is not the day for social profligacy.

Isn't it fun,' she said and she smiled. I let the oars rest in the rowlocks. The water around the boat fell silent, and silently the cabin was floating up above the rocks and the smoke rose softly from the chimney, and how impossible it was to grasp that in the end something as fine as this could be ground into dust.

Away, away, from men and towns,To the wild wood and the downs.

He will find, moreover, a system of simple diet to be a system of perfect epicurism.

The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.

Archbishop Justin Welby says, the Lord's Prayer is 'simple enough to be memorised by small children, and yet profound enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer'.6

Por eso esas palabras de Barth son reconfortantes: Lo que forja a un hombre de oración es que se presente delante de Dios con su petición. Las otras teorías de la oración pueden haber surgido de pensamientos muy profundos y pueden lucir muy bien, pero todas sufren de cierta artificialidad porque carecen de algo simple y concreto: se pierden en las alturas y profundidades donde no hay lugar para el hombre que realmente ora, que simplemente hace una petición.4

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

Well thought out law is elegant, economical, easy to learn.