Quotes About Simplicity

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.