Simple Quotes

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Success, God

  "Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination". Book by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, 1988.

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  Walt Whitman

  Expression, Simplicity, Culture

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

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simplicity

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Needs, Littles, Realizing

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Simplicity, Mind

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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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, Opposites

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

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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

  Socrates

  Life, Simplicity, Want

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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Greed, Simplicity

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  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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• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

  Socrates

  Life, Time, Simplicity

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• Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Impact, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 28, 2011

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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• All the great things are simple.

  Winston Churchill

  Simplicity, Duty And Honor, Mercy

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Simplicity, Simplifying Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.100, Library of America

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• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational Life, Thinking, Simplicity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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  It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sweet, Real, Simplicity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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