Quotes about Simplicity
I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
— Stromae
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
— Bruce Lee
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
— Ignatius of Loyola
My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
— Mother Teresa
We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
— Rob Bell
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
— Brother Lawrence
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
— Thomas Merton
The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.
— David Jeremiah
A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.
— Max Lucado
His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.
— Max Lucado