appreciating simplicity Quotes

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.