Quotes about Simplicity
Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.
— Maya Angelou
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
— Mother Teresa
Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.
— Max Lucado
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
— John Lennon
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
— Peter Drucker
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
— Joyce Meyer
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
— Henry David Thoreau
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
— Confucius
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
— Walt Whitman
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
— Epicurus
There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
— Nicole Kidman
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
— St. Thomas Aquinas