984 Quotes About Simplicity

If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true.

Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.

The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

When we focus on people and life instead of material possessions and mere wants, there's not much room for emotional hand-wringing. Instead, there's more space to weigh what we value in our lives and to acknowledge what really counts. Chapter 9 Simplicity Laura Ingalls in The Long Winter

The beauty of wisdom lies in simplicity and humility.

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.