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"Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail."
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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."

"If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won't work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh)."

"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."

"The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding."

"To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving."
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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."

"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
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