Lucinda Franks Quotes
Sad Quotes by Lucinda Franks

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether
represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind,
it seems suspended, complete unto itself,
somewhere in eternity.
- Lucinda Franks

Christmas in Bethlehem.
The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star,
the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling
to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby,
the incarnation of perfect love.
- Lucinda Franks

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde

Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The simple life is everything Vogue isn't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein

Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest power is often simple patience.
- E. Joseph Cossman

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha

The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu

He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering

Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell

This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus

Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simple child-like attitude would create
a less stressful and happier life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated
things starting from simple programs.
- Seth Lloyd

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high,
simple and useful life.
- Booker T. Washington