Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
The rule is to carry as little as possible.
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, ‘Follow me.’ Now that’s brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn’t have to say.
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.