Quotes about Simplicity

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

The simplest solution is always best.

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.