Quotes about Simplicity
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
— Calvin Coolidge
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
— Ronald Reagan
Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I
— Madeleine L'Engle
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
— AA Milne
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
— Brother Lawrence
Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise.
— Andrew Murray
In this way our Lord teaches us that with infinite fatherliness and faithfulness is how God meets us in secret, so our part should be the childlike simplicity of faith with the confidence that our prayer will bring a blessing.
— Andrew Murray