Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim. — Sharon Osbourne Copy Share Image
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Minimalism naturally narrows down your choices so you can arrive at quick decisions. Less” — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“rounded, satisfying weight of the simplicity of the idea. He looks at them.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Every new step in the direction of simplification – toward monoculture, say, ore genetically identical plants – leads to unimaginable new complexities.(intended… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seems Like there’s a light breeze… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Cooking in Japan is regarded as an art, like music or painting. Every dish has a reason, including the garnishes. This is… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them… At times we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color,… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image