Best 1007 quotes in «simplicity quotes» category

Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating.... I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration.... I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.

people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a "smile

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.

People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It's too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it's foolishness to him. But for those who are in Christ, it's a magnificent journey of simplicity. Depth, richness, but simplicity. It's the fact that the natural man can't believe that life with Christ is so simple that cause the great "complexity" argument. Stop, take a breath, and believe that it's as simple as it appears.

Perfektion ist erreicht, wenn man nichts mehr wegnehmen kann.

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53) (Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.)

Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing it Only with blooming and flowing. This is the only mission in the World, This—to exist clearly, And to know how to do it without thinking about it.)

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

Productivity is directly proportional to your ability to eliminate unnecessarily.

Pseudo-profundity seeks to be profound; true profundity seeks to be simple.

Prostota jest ogromną pomocą przy porządkowaniu myśli.

Quality depends on kindness. Beauty depends on simplicity. Joy depends on generosity.

...pursue ultimate simplicity...

Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.

Rich or poor, the same breath of life.

She tore off a piece of baguette; it was both crusty and soft, still warm in the centre. It was amazing how something so simple, so basic could be this delicious.

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosemary— since the flight to Egypt, blooming differently. With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath, its flowers—white originally— turned blue. The herb of memory, imitating the blue robe of Mary, is not too legendary to flower both as symbol and as pungency. Springing from stones beside the sea, the height of Christ when thirty-three— it feeds on dew and to the bee “hath a dumb language”; is in reality a kind of Christmas-tree.

Sempre invejei os tibetanos pela simplicidade da sua fé pois toda a minha vida tenho procurado respostas. Embora tenha aprendido a forma de meditar enquanto vivi na Ásia, a resposta final para o enigma da vida nunca me foi revelada. Mas aprendi pelo menos a contemplar os eventos da vida com tranquilidade e a não permitir que as circunstâncias me façam derivar de um lado para o outro num mar de dúvidas.

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

Simple is never that simple.

Simple is pretty because it is plain; simple is effective because it gives an understandable clear message; simple is genius because it gains our admiration with a minimum effort!

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out. We want so desperately for them to agree with us, to see things our way. We evaluate people, judge people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that. When we become quiet enough to let go of people, we learn compassion for them.

Simplicity is a sign of being awake.

Simplicity, is the best city to live in...

Simplicity is the friend of execution

Simplicity is the key to happiness.

Simplicity saves strength.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

Sincerity is simplicity.

Small Moth... She's slicing ripe white peaches into the Tony the Tiger bowl and dropping slivers for the dog poised vibrating by her foot to stop their fall when she spots it, camouflaged, a glimmer and then full on- happiness, plashing blunt soft wings inside her as if it wants to escape again.

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".

Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom. Kindness gives you the power of boldness. Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

Simplicity is NOT boring. Simplicity is not self-denial. It is an indulgence, providing you with a wealth of time and space. Simplicity IS discerning the essential from the unessential. Simplicity is having room for the unexpected. It is savoring life. Most of all, simplicity is freedom: It's freedom to choose what you want in your life because you're not letting in everything that shows up. It's freedom to do what you want because you're not already committed to more obligations than you can handle and the maintenance of more objects than you'll ever use.