Effortlessness Quotes

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

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

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

When Zen masters say 'effortlessness' they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort; now you can be relaxed and at ease, it will grow on its own accord. It will bring much foliage, and many flowers, and many blessings.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.