Richelle Mead Quotes

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

Football is simple but very complicated.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But actually doing it may prove to be one of the real challenges in our complicated, overheated lives.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.