Quotes about Simplicity
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in God's shadow I had been dazzled by the detour, amazed at the fraternity, and flabbergasted by the depth that comes from simplicity, from serving in a village that was shabby, green, and pulsing with life.
- Ray Blackston
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
- Ann Voskamp
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
- Thomas a Kempis
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
- Thomas a Kempis
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
- Pope John Paul II
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- Herman Melville
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
- Cormac McCarthy
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
- GK Chesterton
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
- Marcus Aurelius