Simplicity Quotes

The best plans are always the simplest.

~ Jasper Fforde

Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?

~ Bryant Mcgill

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

~ Douglas Coupland

Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.

~ Angelica Hopes

Sincerity is simplicity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don’t need much to give. Give what you have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Make it simple, but significant.

~ Don Draper

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

~ Álvaro De Campos

Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seemsLike there’s a light breeze blowing for a minuteBut the trees are unmovingIn every leaf of their leavesAnd our feelings have had an illusion,An illusion of what would please them...

~ Alberto Caeiro

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

~ Dean Cavanagh

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

~ Derek Landy

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

~ Leah Libresco

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!

~ Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only absolute simplicity can resolve a horrible complication; only a state free from psychology can heal psychological connections, and only a lucid brain can let go of a compulsive thought.

~ Shai Tubali

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life.

~ Waheed Ibne Musa

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

~ Richard J. Foster

Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour and day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Simplicity is efficient.

~ A.d. Posey

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

~ Oliver Markus

The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view….

~ Marc Stiegler

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

~ Criss Jami

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

~ Criss Jami

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

~ A. Lee Martinez

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

~ Charles Alexander Eastman

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go runnin' back to where things is simple.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

~ Richie Norton

Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

~ Debasish Mridha

When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Y

To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism atits finest hour. He was not one of those who merely achieved greatnessnor certainly one of those upon whom greatness was thrust-he was infact born great.

~ Munindra Misra

It’s the simplest things that can convey a message….

~ Peter Cimino

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

~ Criss Jami