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• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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• Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Simple, Inspire

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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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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• I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, People, Today

  Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. January 2003.

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• I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Dream, Simple

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• How many things are there which I do not want.

  Socrates

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

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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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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Men, Simplicity

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• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Letting Go, Cutting

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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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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

  Joseph Brotherton

  Happiness, Attitude, Simple

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Simple, Add

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• My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Dog, Home

  Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. January 2003.

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

  Orison Swett Marden (2005). “An Iron Will”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.

  Pom Klementieff

  Jobs, Simple, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

  Edward Steichen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

  Andrea Hirata

  Stars, Coffee, Airplane

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• Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

  Dale Carnegie

  Simple, Symphony, Simplicity

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• My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Facts, Life Is

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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