Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever.

We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their capacity for love is more immediate, lively and developed than that of other...

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that– and the...

Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!

It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.

A sensible person is one who has a sensitive nature towards all living creatures and this is his or her best personality features towards the positive outlook in life

Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty

A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a...

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection,...

The most creative approach is often the simple approach.

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence “I love you”.

Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seemsLike there’s a light breeze blowing for a minuteBut the trees are unmovingIn every leaf of their leavesAnd our feelings...

To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won’t stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a...

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must...

The world becomes so much larger the smaller you live.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Shouldn’t you be asking for my name first?

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting,...

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will...

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn’t. We can’t compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We’re dealing with...

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart’s deep feeling.

It is good to savour the simple wonders that the world has to offer.Heart-warming ‘snapshots’ that are emblazoned in our soul, help keep us positive in the now and letting us embrace a more positive...

I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was...

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be the sooner over. On the contrary, you...

You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that’s what I think. It’s not that it’s soothing or restful, because it’s not. What it does for me is get inside...

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

Life as a whole is simple, the complexities within it have to do with the motive of the human being.

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile…I don’t know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in...

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

The advantage to a person on being simple and humble all the time is that he is always adorable to innocent hearts, but not to those ignorant minds that treat his simplicity as a sign...