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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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• There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Beautiful, Simple

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• If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Simple, Way

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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  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

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

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• We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• Life was meant to be happy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Were Meant To Be, Meant To Be

  Neale Donald Walsch (2009). “The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study”, p.298, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.

  Stephen Russell

  Simple, Amazing Life, Relax

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• When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

  Melody Beattie

  Life And Love, Simple, Hands

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• Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Pain, Growing Stronger, Used

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Song, Book, Simple

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• If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

  Guy Finley

  Clever, Heart, Cutting

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• I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Believe, Thinking, Simplicity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• A good scare is worth more than good advice.

  Horace

  Funny, Advice, Scare

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• Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Simple, Thinking, Rose

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• I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Small Villages, Care

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Art, Simple

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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• Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

  Frank A. Clark

  Life, Food, Simplicity

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• Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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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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• Live simply that others might simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Simplicity, Community

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

  Jerry Garcia

  Good Life, Simple, Able

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