Simple And Beautiful Quotes:

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

- Robert Browning

topic: Beauty, Attitude, Simple, Simple Beauty, Eyes And Beauty

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Experiencing Things, Soul Beauty

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Simple Things, Refinement

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Secret, Being Content, Simple And Beautiful

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

topic: Life, Happiness, Beautiful, Miscellany, Metropolitan

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

- Bill Nighy

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Ideas, Simple And Beautiful, Robin Hood

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

- Martin Gardner

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Dull, Theorems, Analogue

I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

- J. Christopher Burch

topic: Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple, Simple And Beautiful

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

- Washington Irving

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Children, Mother And Child, Mother Child

To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Swings, Simple And Beautiful

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.104, Courier Corporation

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Eggs, Simple And Beautiful