Quotes in the category simplicity.
Living simply makes loving simple.
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.
Simplicity is one complication that I can live without.
As complicated as life is, Its also very simple,Once we can find a balance, the world becomes ours,Till then, the hard work is to make things that are sooo complicated look sooo simple
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]
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