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Living simply makes loving simple.

~ Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks Love Simplicity

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Life Simplicity

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

~ Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes Life Simplicity

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

~ Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli Inspirational Letting Go Life Motivational Simplicity

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

~ Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang Life Simplicity

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

~ Steve Maraboli

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

~ Ernst F. Schumacher

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The greatest ideas are the simplest.

~ William Golding

William Golding Inspirational Simplicity

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

~ Bruce Lee

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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

~ Natalie Babbitt

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

~ Confucius

Confucius Complexity Philosophy Simplicity

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Philosophy Simplicity

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

~ Douglas Crockford

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Simplicity is one complication that I can live without.

~ Anthony T.hincks

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As complicated as life is, Its also very simple,Once we can find a balance, the world becomes ours,Till then, the hard work is to make things that are sooo complicated look sooo simple

~ Eniitan Akinola

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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

~ David Levithan

David Levithan Simplicity Truth

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

~ Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Simplicity Truth

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

~ Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann Elegance Misattributed To Einstein Simplicity Truth

People who pride themselves on their complexity and deride others for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Simplicity Truth

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

~ Criss Jami

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Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

~ George Sand

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It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.

~ Alberto Caeiro

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The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

~ Alberto Caeiro

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I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile...I don’t know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in them and in meAnd in our common divinityOf letting ourselves go and live on the EarthAnd carrying us in our arms through the contented SeasonsAnd letting the wind sing us to sleepAnd not have dreams in our sleep.

~ Alberto Caeiro

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We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.

~ Criss Jami

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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.

~ Gary Hopkins

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A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.

~ Alberto Caeiro

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All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.

~ Alberto Caeiro

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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

~ Criss Jami

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In simplicity there is truth.

~ River Phoenix

River Phoenix Honesty Simplicity Truth

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

~ Brennan Manning

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Even so, I’m somebody.I’m the Discoverer of Nature.I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.

~ Alberto Caeiro

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What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these things,I’ll stop seeing trees and plantsAnd stop seeing the EarthFor only seeing my thoughts...I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.

~ Alberto Caeiro

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Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know how to do it without thinking about it.)

~ Alberto Caeiro

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Keep it simple and keep it real. The more basic we see our connection to God and Spirit, the easier it is to feel like you're a part of it.

~ Jim Fargiano

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I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Simplicity Wisdom

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

~ Criss Jami

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