Quotes about Simplicity

'Tis the gift to be simple,'Tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come downWhere we ought to be.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan

Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one's neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

This is their weakness, Duncan. Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple—black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.