Quotes about Simplicity

I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children.

I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand

Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.

Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated, said Japhy. A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles. (The Dharma Bums, Chap. 8)

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If you own a rug you own too much.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.