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Simplicity Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"The ordinary can be like medicine."
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"Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity."
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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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"Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment."
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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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"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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"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"
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"Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements."
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"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."
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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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"The secret of the answered prayer is not in its artistry, nor shouts either."
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"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
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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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"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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"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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"Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move."
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"A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus."
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"Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity."
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"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
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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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"When I started to live in simplicity my life became peaceful, joyful, and blissful."
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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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"Beware all enterprises that require new clothes."
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"There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle."
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"Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out."
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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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"Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !"
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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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"When you give the supply of discipline, life becomes easy for you."
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"One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought."
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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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"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
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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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"Faith is easy I think people complicate it."
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"What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be."
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"Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight."
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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
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"To be simple is the best thing in the world."
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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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"Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?"
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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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"There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity."
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