Quotes about Simplicity
The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
— Henry David Thoreau
That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.
— Thomas Merton
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.
— Randy Alcorn
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
— William Wordsworth
The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
— Ann Voskamp
Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.
— Arianna Huffington
It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There were only two classes of people who heard the cry Christmas night: shepherds and wise men. Shepherds: those who know they know nothing. Wise men: those who know they do not know everything. Only the very simple and very learned discovered God - never the man with one book.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom