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Simplicity Quotes


"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."


"A rose does not need to boast of what the whole world already knows, its beauty."


"Life can be so wonderful when simplicity, passion and love is involved in everything we do !"


"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."


"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."


"Somethings are simply better left the way they are."


"What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg."


"The spoon's color does not change the soup's taste."


"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"


"If he was looking for fancy embellishment, or obvious signs of wealth, he was to be disappointed. Amanda couldn't bear pretension or impracticality, and so she had chosen furniture for function rather than for style. If she bought a chair, it must be large and comfortable. If she bought a side table, it must be sturdy enough to hold a stack of books or a big lamp. She did not like gilding and porcelain disks, nor all the carving and hieroglyphics that were certainly fashionable."


"Don't waste dollars counting cents."


"When you give the supply of discipline, life becomes easy for you."


"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."


"If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!"


"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."


"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."


"Tell a story in lesser and simpler words."


"What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be."


"Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff."


"Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you."


"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."


"We need much less than we think we need."


"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."


"Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!"


"The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want."


"Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight."


"The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike."


"If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid."


"It is easy, just be to have."


"All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly."


"I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best."



"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."


"Be simple and kind with a loving heart. These attributes make you more beautiful and attractive than any make up."


"Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day."


"A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus."


"By simplifying our lives, we rediscover our child-like stalk of innocents that reconnects us with the central resin of our innate humanity that knows truth and goodness. To see the world through a lens of youthful rapture is to see life for what it can be and to see for ourselves what we wish to become. In this beam of newly discovered ecstasy for life, we realize the splendor of love, life, and the unbounded beauty of the natural world."


"Beauty lies in simplicity."


"Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials."


"Living a less complicated life starts from preserving the positive things matter in your life, getting rid of the negative burdens in your mind, and staying out of people's business."


"Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons."


"Faith is easy I think people complicate it."


"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."


"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!"


"Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity."


"A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine."
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