simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".
True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.
I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.
