Quotes about Simplicity
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
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
— Henry David Thoreau
We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who we are can emerge.
— Lysa TerKeurst
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
— Teresa of Avila
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
— Hannah More
Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.
— TobyMac
Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
— Thomas a Kempis