Simplicity Quotes

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

All you need is love.

One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Shorth is better than length.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

To have enough of enough is always enough.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

He liked her; it was as simple as that.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.