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Simplicity Quotes
!["The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the 'alleluias' of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ['Words flew away like birds']"](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the 'alleluias' of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ['Words flew away like birds']"
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"Water - a thoroughly underrated drink."
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"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life."
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"A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
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"Be simple but think great to be great."
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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
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"What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life."
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"We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy."
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"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter."
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"I said hello to the poodle."
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"When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ['Is that all there is?']"
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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
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"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."
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"Again I resume the longlesson: how small a thingcan be pleasing, how littlein this hard world it takesto satisfy the mindand bring it to its rest."
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"Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths."
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"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
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"Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived."
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"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"
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"People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough."
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"The best plans are always the simplest."
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"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."
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"It appears, at least from my perspective, that each and every position in Jiu Jitsu regardless of the seeming complexity is really governed by no more than a handful of minimum viable products. Pursue to understand these essentials, and you will see that complexity is a myth perpetuated by lack of understanding, and it is this understanding which is possible for each of us."
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"Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity."
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"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
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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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"You don't have to spend a lot of money to feel like a million. A good night's sleep, a quiet walk by the river or a hug from a favorite person will do the trick."
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"On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don't want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is our ordinary life and it is very grounded in every day experience. For me, it is the daily practice of kindness, mindfulness, happiness, and peace."
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"Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is."
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"Life is contentment not a competition."
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"Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven. I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fail when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America. Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?"
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"And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water."
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"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
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"There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes."
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"Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world."
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"Live simply so others may simply live."
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"Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies."
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"If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!"
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"Food shouldn't be half-bad. It should be all good."
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"Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life."
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"To enjoy the freshness of life, be simple like water."
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"It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought."
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"May your wants be few and your pleasures many."
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"Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words."
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