Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

I aspire only to silence.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Quiet is better than loud.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected. In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love - but not too many of them.

I like comfort and I like simplicity.

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.

True simplicity is elegant.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.