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• I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.

  Dawna Markova

  Gratitude, Morning, Crazy

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• I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Simple, Way

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• There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Dog, Horse, Crazy

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• It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

  Joe Chung

  Simple, Long, Understanding

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• To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.

  Elliott Yamin

  Inspiration, Writing, Character

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

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• Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Leadership, Mean, Simple

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• The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

  Don Henley

  Religious, Simple, Religion

  Song: Everything Is Different Now, Album: Inside Job, 2000

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• It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

  Linda Olsson

  Photography, Writing, Simple

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• To think deeply of simple things.

  Arnold Ross

  Math, Simple, Thinking

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• I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

  Justin Timberlake

  Movie, Simple, Sneak In

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• I keep like simple thing in my head, so obviously is working. Then it's luck. To be honest, look at set point. I hit one of the worst drop shots I ever hit and he hit a frame It's pure luck, you know, to haven't drop a set. So you need to have it sometime, and I hope I will have more.

  Gael Monfils

  Simple, Luck, Needs

  "An Interview With: Gael Monfils". 2014.usopen.org. September 2, 2014.

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• I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

  King Hussein I

  Simple, Israel, Lines

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• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  Eddie Marsan

  Hard Work, Simple, Asking Questions

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2010.

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• A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

  Donald O. Hebb

  Simple, Government, Brain

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• Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."

  Joe J. Christensen

  Kindness, Simple, Differences

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• Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Simple

  "Mark Twain’s Book of Animals".

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• Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Simple, Ideas, Common Sense

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Home, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

  Barbra Streisand

  Simple, I Can

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• Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain that makes it impossible to learn anything except very simple things. No generation of animals ever learns anything from any previous generation. We act like animals when we fail to use this magnificent piece of equipment.

  Sterling W Sill

  Animal, Simple, Thinking

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• To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
  To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.
  When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.
  Greatness comes in simple trappings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Kindness, Angel, Simple

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.2, Best Books on

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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. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

  Edward Steichen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Death, Fall, Autumn

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  Fay Wray

  Attitude, Book, Simple

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• I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

  Wendell Berry

  Simple, Men, Fire

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.78, Counterpoint Press

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