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• Live simply so that others may simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Contentment, Rich Poor

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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• With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

  Henri Matisse

  Essentials, Form, Completeness

  Henri Matisse (2011). “Matisse: Drawing Life”, Queensland Art Gallery

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goodness, Squalor

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• The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Purpose, Becoming

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.2, Basic Books

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• Simplicity is a most complex form

  Duke Ellington

  Form, Complexes

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• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Self

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• Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

  Lin Yutang

  Depth, Signs And Symbols, Symbols

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Knowing

  "Four Years After the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle Web Class, What I Still Can Learn" by Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Simplify, simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

  Viktor Schauberger

  Wisdom, Nature, Believe

  Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик

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• Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
  Today, I choose to give love.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Life, Simple

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Apr 30, 2015

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• Simplicity is a state of mind.

  Charles Wagner

  Mind, States, State Of Mind

  Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Civilization

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• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Wings, Two

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Keys, Balance, Modern Life

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, 1992.

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• Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

  John Stott

  Cousin, Contentment, Firsts

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• poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

  Dervla Murphy

  Needs, Poverty

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.56, The Overlook Press

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• Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Eye, Simple

  "Finding Joy in the Nitty-Gritty: An Interview with Ann Voskamp". "Homeschool Heartbeat" podcast with Mike Farris (Volume 127, Week 14), hslda.org. August 8-12, 2016.

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• Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "In the Cause of Architecture".

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• At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Envy, Suffering

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Character, Autumn

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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