Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

The best plans are always the simplest.

She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful...

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown...

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

The simplest things are often the truest.

The way towards simplicity is through outrage.

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

What is 34 in Reality, anyway?

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or...

Sounds simple, doesn’t it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it’s not as simple as it seems.

Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wherever the individual does not mind forfeiting the option, for some sense of control.

…pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Your purpose is simply what you do each day.

A man’s high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

It’s simple, it’s not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to...

Beauty is not in complexity but it’s in simplicity.

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn’t mean I don’t lean into her territory every once in a while.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things. That’s why I want to cherish properly the things I love.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know...

It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It’s too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it’s foolishness to him. But for those who are...

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy...

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

In simplicity there is truth.

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. (“Interval In Sunlight”)

The core of beauty is simplicity.

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums;...

Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do something more complex. Don’t be confused by the word simple. Simple...

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn’t make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear… then his message was easily...

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.