Quotes about Simplicity

To be great at a few things and experience it, you have to say no to many things.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.