Best 1007 quotes in «simplicity quotes» category

Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.

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Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.

Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.

Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people.... We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.