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"I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat."
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"A man needs only his daily bread."

"Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!"

"Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!"

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

"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."

"Life is very simple. Just sometimes put your head away, sometimes behead yourself, sometimes look with no clouds in the eyes - just look. Sometimes sit by the side of a tree - just feel. By the side of a waterfall - listen. Lie down on the beach and listen to the roar of the ocean, feel the sand, the coolness of it, or look at the stars, and let that silence penetrate you. Or look at the dark night and let that velvety darkness surround you, envelop you, dissolve you. This is the way of the simple heart."

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

"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"

"Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials."
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."


"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."


"The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity."


"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."


"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."


"Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,High in the purer, happier air."


"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."
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