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Simplicity Quotes
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
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"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"
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"Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths."
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"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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"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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"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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"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
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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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"People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough."
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"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
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"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"
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"A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
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"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
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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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"To enjoy the freshness of life, be simple like water."
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"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."
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"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
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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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"I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home."
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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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"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter."
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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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"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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"Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity."
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"Life is contentment not a competition."
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"Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world."
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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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"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
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"When I started to live in simplicity my life became peaceful, joyful, and blissful."
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"In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity."
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"Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life."
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"Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity."
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"If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!"
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"A man needs only his daily bread."
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"Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words."
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"It occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over."
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"A rose does not need to boast of what the whole world already knows, its beauty."
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"Be simple and kind with a loving heart. These attributes make you more beautiful and attractive than any make up."
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"Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is."
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"I said hello to the poodle."
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"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
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"We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary."
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"The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!"
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