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Simplicity Quotes
"In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity."
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"I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!"
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"Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure."
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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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"The ordinary can be like medicine."
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"People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything."
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"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"
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"She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again."
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"Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons."
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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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"The secret of the answered prayer is not in its artistry, nor shouts either."
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"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
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"Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you."
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"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
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"Beware all enterprises that require new clothes."
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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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"Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems."
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"Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out."
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"To be simple is the best thing in the world."
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"For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor."
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"Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking."
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"We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth."
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"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind."
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"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days."
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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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"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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"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society."
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"Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move."
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"What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg."
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"Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment."
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"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
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"Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity."
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"Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?"
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"The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?"
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"What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be."
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"A man needs only his daily bread."
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"I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries."
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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."
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"A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus."
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"It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety."
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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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"But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me."
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"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."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
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"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)."
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