Top 92 Quotes About The Simplest Things
#1. Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
Hugh Jackman
#2. Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#3. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. A man knows he's in love when he's totally happy just watching his girlfriend do even the simplest things - peeling an apple, combing her hair, fluffing up a bed pillow, laughing.
James Patterson
#5. The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
Irving Stone
#6. I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.
Cindy Morgan
#7. The simplest things are the hardest to understand.
Kevin Wilson
#8. A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#9. I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.
Charles Olson
#11. Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.
Debasish Mridha
#12. It doesn't take much to make me happy, but the simplest things are sometimes the hardest to get. But when if finally arrives, heaven help those who try to take it away from me.
Jaime Reed
#13. One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#14. Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.
Czeslaw Milosz
#15. Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.
Michelle Williams
#16. And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Pope John Paul II
#17. When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
#18. The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Some of the simplest things in like are the most difficult to imagine.
Lemony Snicket
#20. Lately I had been finding it hard to understand the simplest things people said to me, as if what they were speaking in were a form of language I did not recognise; I would know the words but could not assemble them into sense.
John Banville
#21. The simplest things in life are what makes us happy eventually. A warm and comfy home, being loved, and knowing that somebody can't live without you
Ika Natassa
#22. I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
Tanya Fischer
#23. When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.
Carlos Castaneda
#24. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd
#25. My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.
Waris Ahluwalia
#26. The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
Goldie Hawn
#28. Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.
Richie Sambora
#29. Sometimes it's the simplest things we should most long for.
C.W. Gortner
#30. What we're all sort of trying to do in our lives is to make the simplest things work out the best.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
Banana Yoshimoto
#33. Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" -Annabelle
Lauren Wolk
#34. It's the simplest things in your life that help you achieve the greatest BLESSINGS. None of those things cost you, yet they can bring abundant reward. Faith, honesty and good manners will take you places and assist you in obtaining things that money NEVER will.
Carlos Wallace
#35. The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
Pablo Casals
#36. When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
Richard Gere
#37. When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.
Cassandra Clare
#39. The simplest things give me ideas.
Joan Miro
#40. Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.
Marcus Samuelsson
#41. Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. I'm sure that if [Walter] could still talk to the living, he would tell us that the simplest things in life can be treasures, and there are no physical or metaphysical limitations on how much we can love-both in this life and beyond.
Amelia Cotter
#43. People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
Jean De La Bruyere
#46. When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.
Paula Stokes
#47. The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.
Richard Schmid
#48. At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
Virginia Postrel
#49. I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.
Henry Petroski
#50. Happiness is found in the simplest of things. Happiness is found in gratitude, in a kept promise, in a good conversation, in love, in friendship, in an achieved goal, in a fond memory; in all the simple magnificence of life.
Steve Maraboli
#51. Continually, a storm blew through our world and it always had, and the only place I knew where this was formulated, the most extreme yet simplest things, was in these holy scriptures.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#52. We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there's too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.
Emily Nagoski
#53. This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones
Karen Foxlee
#54. With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
William Of Ockham
#55. I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
Andy Garcia
#56. People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
#57. The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.
Winna Efendi
#59. In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.
I. A. Richards
#60. One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.
Daily Dose
#61. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.
Paul Lockhart
#62. First things first: A clean house simply looks better than a messy house. A room where everything has its place is nicer than a room filled with chaotic stacks and clutter. If you want your house to look nicer and have a better ambiance, the first and simplest thing you can do is to clean.
Katie Sawyer
#63. You'd think walking should be the simplest thing," she said at last. "Just a question of putting one foot in front of the other. But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are." She wet her lower lip with
Rachel Joyce
#64. Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
Biz Stone
#65. 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
#66. Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So
Harlan Coben
#67. The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
David Bowie
#68. Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson
#69. Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#70. We tend to overlook the simplest of things in our quest for a better life.
Anuja Ghosh
#71. Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
Randy Pausch
#72. If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
Lewis Carroll
#73. Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money.
Ernest Hemingway,
#74. All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.
William Of Ockham
#75. Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.
Steve Maraboli
#76. The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.
Robin McKinley
#77. And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.
Larry Kramer
#78. Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.
Christie Golden
#79. We haven't shed our engineering pragmatism, so we accomplish things in the simplest manner possible. It helps with budget, obviously. We're not getting rich off web video, and we're supporting two families with our income, so we need to keep as much of the budget to ourselves.
Rhett McLaughlin
#80. The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
Brian Tracy
#81. I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#82. When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses--not zebras.' In other words, most things are exactly what they seem, and the simplest answer is usually the right one.
Judy Melinek
#83. And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.
Donato Carrisi
#84. It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.
Paul Cullen
#85. I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.
John Hughes
#86. The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.
George M. Whitesides
#87. Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
Marvin Minsky
#88. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.
Nick Hornby
#89. The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
Charles Kettering
#90. Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
Orison S. Marden
#91. [...]dead was dead, but there was still a man in there, one who wanted all the same things I did, though even the simplest seemed out of his reach.
Thea Hayworth
#92. My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
Etgar Keret
