Quotes about Simplicity

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.

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.