To Be Simple Quotes
Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
My whole approach to marriage is simple: my wife will do something that drives me insane, I won't say anything, and then, later, I'll die of cancer.
It's fun just spending time with everyone. It's something that's so simple, yet so valuable to me
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.
Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.
My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always.
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.
The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use.
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.
