Quotes about Simplicity
A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.
— Anonymous
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.
— Anonymous
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
— GK Chesterton
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
— Walt Whitman
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
— Oscar Wilde
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
— Thomas a Kempis
We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
— Henry David Thoreau
a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.
— JM Coetzee
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
— Jack Kerouac
After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...
— Jack Kerouac
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....
— Jack Kerouac
To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
— Jack Kerouac