Simple Quotes

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.

I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

My style is simple, kinda girly, but with a bit of an edge.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.