Top 63 Quotes About The Beauty Of Simplicity
#1. The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
Tom Robbins
#2. Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
Susanne Bier
#4. Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy
Munia Khan
#5. The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?
Alberto Caeiro
#6. Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.
Paulo Coelho
#7. A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.
But what is it, a row of trees? It's just trees.
Row and the plural trees aren't things, they're names.
Alberto Caeiro
#8. 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.
Alvaro De Campos
#10. We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Natural beauty is always tiresome. It lacks that careless touch of artifice that is the hallmark of true originality. There is nothing so overdone and vulgar as unspoilt simplicity.
Emily Croy Barker
#12. The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.
Janette Oke
#13. And what is that thing which you promise to provide?- 'The beauty of the soul and the simplicity of happiness', he replied.
Aporva Kala
#14. Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugene Delacroix
#15. Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.
Lee Smolin
#16. Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#17. If I talk about her like she's a being
It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men
Which gives personality to things,
And imposes a name on things.
Alberto Caeiro
#18. A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.
Anuj
#19. Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk
Gary Crowley
#20. Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.
Duane Elgin
#23. True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity ... What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.
Ellen G. White
#24. It's stranger than every strangeness
And the dreams of all the poets
And the thoughts of all the philosophers,
That things are really what they seem to be
And there's nothing to understand.
Alberto Caeiro
#25. Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman
#26. Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#27. THE BEAUTY OF VALUE INVESTING is its logical simplicity. It is based on two principles: What's it worth (intrinsic value), and don't lose money (margin of safety).
Christopher H. Browne
#28. The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.
Thich Thien-An
#29. Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them ... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
John Dalton
#30. Back in the gurdwara, the ceiling doing strange things above my head, Jungli fed me with pieces of orange.
Our outspoken attachment deepened. I was moved by his tenderness, his simplicity and his beautiful eyes. Beauty is a great robber of my common sense.
Sarah Lloyd
#33. Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.
Chip St. Clair
#34. All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,
Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.
Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.
To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.
Alberto Caeiro
#35. The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.
Larry Evans
#36. [Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.
Okakura Kakuzo
#37. Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment ... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
Abraham Maslow
#38. Beauty is in the holiness of the heart and in the simplicity of mind.
Debasish Mridha
#39. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
Jonathan Ive
#40. When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.
Genevieve Gorder
#41. Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#42. Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
Gerry McGovern
#43. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.
Robert Jordan
#45. Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
Mahlon Hoagland
#46. We now reflexly, and dishonestly, unmask all virtue as hypocritical, all beauty as Kitsch; and have become so jaded with simplicity and wholesomeness that we find Good insipid and crave the sharp stimulus of sin.
Bruce G. Charlton
#47. Then he closed his eyes and put his hands together again before his face, finger to finger. Johnny was struck by the kid's lack of pretension. There was a simplicity about the gesture that had been honed by use into beauty.
Stephen King
#48. Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#49. When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
Michio Kaku
#50. Is great beauty in the simplicity of giving oneself to another in trust, and allowing them to hold you up.
Raine Miller
#52. One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that ... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis ... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.
Murray Gell-Mann
#54. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
Helena Rubinstein
#55. When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
Jack Kornfield
#56. The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
Melvin Schwartz
#57. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Aberjhani
#59. When you are introduced
to the clarity inside of you,
to the simplicity inside of you,
to that beauty inside of you,
the journey of life begins.
Prem Rawat
#60. You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.
Seth Avett
#61. When you cannot feel,
The purity of love,
The tenderness of beauty,
The drinkability of wine,
The simplicity of a smile,
You have to go back and drink coffee
M.F. Moonzajer
#62. The secret of a happy life is to live a life with child-like simplicity, appreciate nature's beauty, and admire honesty.
Debasish Mridha
#63. He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.
Katie Kennedy
