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"The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike."
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"Be simple to fill life with abundance."

"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."

"Let it be simple, let it be with love."

"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"

"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."

"In a day a man needs only his daily bread."

"To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving."

"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."

"If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!"
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"The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself."

"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."

"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."

"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."

"All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take."
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