Quotes about Simplicity

the unlearned, the outcasts, and the simple flocked to Him. They listened with wide-open hearts, and many trusted in Him. Virtually all His miracles were reserved for these people.

be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Meditation, otherwise known as sitting still and thinking about nothing, is one of those things that can be just as stupidly simple as it is surprisingly hard.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

Our possessions should be suited to our bodies and lives, just as our shoes are suited to our feet. Could you run better if your shoes were larger than your feet, or gold-plated and diamond studded? Of course not. Once you let your appetite exceed what is necessary and useful, desire knows no bounds.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.