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Simplicity Quotes
"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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"But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."
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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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"Just keep it simple, Alice Faye. Remember how you taught yourself. Nothing's different just because you're on a yacht, or wearing a fancy dress. Or because you appear to have dropped acid and are now in the mirror room at the fun house."
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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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"Tell a story in lesser and simpler words."
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"We need much less than we think we need."
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"The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike."
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"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."
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"Over complication only confuses the essence of things."
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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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"Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!"
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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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"A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine."
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"I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life."
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"A man needs only his daily bread."
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"You wanna go build some shelves with me?"
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"Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."
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"I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best."
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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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"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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"The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives."
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"A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow."
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"Everyday, in our quest to grab the new, the trendy, the coolest stuff, we forget to use the old and our daily lives become stuck in the vicious cycle, chasing after stuff without working the old. Today, pause, slow down, take time, revisit those lessons, materials and take the necessary baby-steps. It pays. Go, make it happen!"
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"In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values."
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"Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff."
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"The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want."
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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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"The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding."
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"I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish."
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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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"Somethings are simply better left the way they are."
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"Be simple to fill life with abundance."
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"The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!"
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"What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale."
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"Life is all we need."
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"Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!"
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"Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you."
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"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."
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"His story is simple, because simple is always best."
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"If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid."
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"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."
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"It is easy, just be to have."
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"All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly."
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"If you're under stress, your life is complex. Simplify your life to reduce the stress."
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"My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves."
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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
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