Quotes about Simplicity

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

Live simply so that others may simply live.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.