Plain and Simple Quotes

“Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“Miracles come after a lot of hard work.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“The biggest surprise-- and it came as a great revalation-- was understanding that whatever happens, no matter how catastrophic or wonderful, it's just another patch. There are times when something special happens: a marriage, graduation, or the birth of a child. There's no denying it's a glorious patch. It might even be a red patch-- the one that pulls the whole quilt together. But I couldn't stop repeating, "It's just another patch.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“It's the enjoyment of every step in the process of doing; everything, not only the isolated piece we label art. If accomplishing is the only goal, all that it takes to reach that goal is too slow, too fatiguing-- an obstacle to what you want to achieve. If you want to rush the accomplishment, it is an inevitable disappointment. Then you rush to something else. The disappointment is reaped over and over again. But if every step is pleasant, then the accomplishment becomes even more, because it is nourished by what is going on.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“I had always believed that good things would happen to me, but I’d have to work every single minute to make sure they would happen. I could never relax and trust that things would work out without my being totally in charge.   I”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish

“Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.”
― Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish