Henry David Thoreau Quotes

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.

Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.

To have nice interactions with people is a better than to make anyone uncomfortable, than to try to fill up some kind of lull. Like anybody else, there's times when maybe I don't feel like talking with other people. You don't have to be in show business to not feel like making small talk sometimes. But we kind of are all in this together. It makes things easier - it just makes life easier, if we're all nice to each other. I'm sure that sounds terribly corny, but honestly, it's one of those simple things that it's so simple, it's true, and it's so true that it's simple.

I really do love to do things that are nice and simple!

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

Keep everything simple, don't try anything crazy and all your strikes must be hard! NOTHING WEAK, no jabs or weak attacks.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

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

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?