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• All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

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• Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

  Douglas Harding

  Simple, Profound, Difficult

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• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

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• The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Powerful, Simple, Who I Am

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• Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Reflection, Simple, Focus

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• Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh, basically a star is a pretty simple thing.' And from the back of the room was heard the voice of R. O. Redman, saying, 'Well, Fred, you'd look pretty simple too, from ten parsecs!

  Fred Hoyle

  Stars, Simple, Voice

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• It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

  David Lynch

  Simple, Ideas, Cards

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• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Simple, Things In Life, Parks

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• Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

  Andy Stanley

  Morning, Sunday, Simple

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• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• Joy comes from places you least expect it. Its usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

  Dave Gahan

  Basketball, Son, Simple

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• The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

  John Tesh

  Running, Dream, Simple

  John Tesh (2012). “Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Simple, Paint

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• What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Two, Telling The Truth

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

  Alice Meynell

  Simple, Looks, Sides

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.

  Tina Knowles

  Girl, Mom, Bad Day

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• Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Simple, Doors

  "Song: "Old Black Kettle" ("My Tennessee Mountain Home")". March 26, 1973.

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• Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

  Fay Weldon

  Simple, Rough Times

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.

  Randy Newman

  Sleep, Simple, Get Better

  "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

  G. Garvin

  Simple, Cooking, Looks

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• Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspiration, Simple, Everyday Things

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.114, Discovery House

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• [A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

  Evan Esar

  Math, Simple, Circles

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• Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.

  Jhane Barnes

  Happiness, Dream, Simple

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• I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things. I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I'd forget, the memory I wanna forget is goodbye.

  Miley Cyrus

  Moving On, Break Up, Goodbye

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• [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flower

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