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• Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Simple, Men, Wings

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• My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

  Samantha Shannon

  Father, Simple, Usual

  Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

  Clara Barton

  Simple, Hands, Opposites

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  There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Inspiring, Time

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Simple, Ordinary, My Family

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• To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fire, Simplicity, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Simplicity, Criteria, Simple Beauty

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• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  Wumen Huikai

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Simplicity, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Simplicity, Want

  1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.

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• A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

  Stephanie Kaza

  Opportunity, Simple, Lifestyle

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• Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

  Confucius

  Simple, Excess, Faults

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• To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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• A simple life is its own reward.

  George Santayana

  Simple, Rewards, Life Is

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.203, 谷月社

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• The simplest things give me ideas.

  Joan Miro

  Ideas, Giving, Simplicity

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• A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Humility, Long, Simplicity

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• A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.

  Justine Henin

  Caring, Simple, Opposites

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• I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  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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• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Horse, Envy, Sick

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Simple, People

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• It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

  Lewis Thomas

  Memories, Science, Simple

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Simplify, then add lightness.

  Colin Chapman

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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