Top 100 Quotes About Simple Things
#1. You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Jeff Bezos
#2. I tend to believe simple things are the real things.
Marty Rubin
#3. In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
Bertrand Russell
#4. Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#5. It is difficult to discuss history, and more difficult to talk about now, today, even simple things.
Thabo Mbeki
#6. Mindfulness and awareness will allow you to participate in your life rather than only reacting to life. Through practicing mindfulness, you can begin to enjoy the simple things in life that have been lost in the clutter.
Bryant McGill
#7. Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.
Jill Badonsky
#8. Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
Condoleezza Rice
#9. What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
#10. He was finally feeling what is it to be loved by somebody. To be cared for. To be missed. The simple things that we all take for granted ...
S.C. Stephens
#11. No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
Ronaldinho
#12. Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems.
Fennel Hudson
#13. I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; ...
Paulo Coelho
#14. It's the simple things in life that comprise the difference between existing and living.
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Cora Carmack
#15. You think you know yourself so well, but what you end up knowing is the simple things.
Mark Winkler
#17. It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
Theodore Sturgeon
#18. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Friedrich Schiller
#19. I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.
R. YS Perez
#20. Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.
Chinua Achebe
#21. I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.
DMX
#22. I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.
Sasha Cohen
#23. I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#24. I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.
Tom T. Hall
#25. Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#26. People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco
#27. Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.
Daniel Quinn
#28. I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
Raul Labrador
#30. To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.
Arun Shourie
#31. If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.
Joel Osteen
#32. The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.
John Baldoni
#33. In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
Thomas Eakins
#34. It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Donald Miller
#35. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die?
Charles Bukowski
#36. After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.
Cecelia Ahern
#37. Humans have a tendency to overcomplicate simple things because we overthink them. But if you take a step back and remember your priorities, it becomes easier to make a decision. When
Lilly Singh
#38. For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.
Neneh Cherry
#39. I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
David Levithan
#40. He wanted to see the world through her eyes, where simple things like oak paneling and stone bridges were marvels.
Regina Scott
#41. She was consumed by 2 simple things:
despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:
youth and beauty
Charles Bukowski
#42. I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
John Barth
#43. I like the sun."
"Do you really? I didn't think you'd go in for simple things like sun. You're the neon type, aren't you?"
"If you say so.
Ross Macdonald
#44. Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.
Dale Carnegie
#45. People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
Jeff Bezos
#46. Forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really? A quick check to see
Lysa TerKeurst
#47. The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.
Gerald Durrell
#48. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs
#50. We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
John Desmond Bernal
#52. The simple things in life are the greatest gifts.
Bryant McGill
#53. I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not away from things, or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman
#54. Learn to be happy with simple things because you are completely surrounded by the wonderful simple things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
Paulo Coelho
#56. In creating extraordinary beauties, simple things are more talented than the complex things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Just believe; believe in yourself; believe in your ability. Things will be possible; things will be simple; things will be a reality.
Debasish Mridha
#58. I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.
Drake
#59. There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
Kelly Clarkson
#60. It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.
Linda Olsson
#61. To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Maybe you have thought that doing ... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
Joe J. Christensen
#64. It's the simple things in life, and all that crap.
Darynda Jones
#65. Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.
Rajneesh
#66. A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa "Sam" Fitzgerald who love their men. Are content with their lives together.
James Brady
#68. We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#69. I know the secret of life, interestingly [laughs]: it's pleasure in simple things. I've always had this since I started growing up; I realised why I was mostly happy. It's because I took pleasure in the simplest, little things.
Anonymous
#70. I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
Amy Adams
#71. Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.
Izabel Goulart
#72. It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
Richard Brautigan
#73. If you think too much heaven within your mind,
you may have no time for simple things in this life.
Toba Beta
#74. The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.
Mariel Hemingway
#75. There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
Hermann Hesse
#76. May the simple things be amazing on the journey of your life.
Jake Owen
#77. Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
#78. But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
Daphne Du Maurier
#79. The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.
Don Henley
#80. Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me:
If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures,
life and living need not be so hard.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#81. Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.
Charlotte Selver
#82. We're all just a conglomeration of our nervous habits. I see them like road maps in each conversation telling me more about the people than their words.
stripping people of simple things weakens them.
Sarah Noffke
#83. Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.
Khaled Mashal
#84. My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
Fay Wray
#85. The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
Paul A.M. Dirac
#86. Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.
Ted Danson
#87. The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.
Lois Duncan
#89. Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy.
Marvin Minsky
#90. I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.
Marwa Ayad
#91. Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.
Paulo Coelho
#92. Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.
Andrew Robb
#93. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho
#94. Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.
Craig Venter
#95. He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.
Georges Simenon
#96. How things change,' I say, 'how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.
Judith Arnopp
#97. Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.
Charles R. Swindoll
#98. Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
Celia Green
#99. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse
#100. I think it's also different when you're younger, too and your whole life is exposed. You know, it is probably exhausting and a little spiritually depleting, but you just find ways to fill up and do things For me it's simple things.
Kate Walsh
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