Quotes About Simplicity

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

The obvious is always least understood.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.

I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it?

I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows.

No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

At home, a T-shirt and something loose like harem pants would do. If I'm stepping out, a pair of blue jeans and a white tee are just fine.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

I don't want nothing to do with y'all, I just stay home. I do drugs, lay around and take care of my family, that's it.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.