This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.
Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure. . . and they matter forever.
Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. . . Seek simplicity and distrust it.
The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.
Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.
The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. . . . Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.