Quotes about Simplicity

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Thank you," the old man said. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

If I do it you won't ever worry?' 'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.' Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.

We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other.

The old man drank his coffee slowly. It was all he would have all day and he knew that he should take it. For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch.

What simplicity," the scarred-faced brother, who was called Andrés, said. "And how do you explode them?

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?