Quotes about Simplicity

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Thank you," the old man said. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.