I have perceived that to be with those i like is enough,To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly roundhis or her neck for a moment, what is...

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

“Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

Small Moth…She’s slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. ‘We buy things...

Don’t allow us, Father, as the end draws near to be paralyzed in waiting for a complicated scheme or fancy equipment. WE ARE THE EQUIPTMENT.

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes...

Being simple is something really good, making nothing simpler is probably better but the simplest way to adapt to adopt the real simplicity in the life to do everything for the humanity without seeking anything for the publicity and keeping Almighty happy is simply the best.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and out of that comes beauty. The more simple and beautiful from within we are, the more complete we become.

We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t see them under our big noses.

Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him…It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and...

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.

Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy,...

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of minds creativity

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

History as well as life itself is complicated — neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.

I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.

Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

There is a level of consciousness between sleeping and fully wakening when the worries of the day have not settled upon us; the body is stilled, and the senses wholly receptive. If the sun is bright, there is pure silence, or the birds are beginning to sing, this shining level of consciousness can come to...

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Simplify your life. You don’t grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

The Tejo runs down from SpainAnd the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.Everybody knows that.But not many people know the river of my villageAnd where it comes fromAnd where it’s going.And so, because it belongs to less people,The river of my village is freer and greater.

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One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most powerful expressions of that sovereignty of the intellect that inspired the thought of those times. At a later epoch, when...

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.(“Three O’Clock”)

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.

Excess has impaired perspective in America.

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to ‘lay it on’ in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.