Quotes about Simplicity

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

The simplest solution is always best.

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.