Simplicity Quotes

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

  Aristotle

  Greatness, Spirit, Sincerity

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• We need much less than we think we need.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Thinking, What Matters

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• Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spirit, Conquer, Distraction

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  Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Confusion, Facts

  Isaac Newton (1994). “Trattato sull Apocalisse”

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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 pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Healthy, World

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• To be simple is the best thing in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Sweat, Love Relationship

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• I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

  Bobby Brown

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Just Being

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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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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• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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  Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual

  "The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

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• There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1071, Vintage

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• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clothes, Environmental

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

  "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine, 1923.

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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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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• 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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• Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

  Duane Elgin

  Appreciation, Mean, Degrees

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• If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Lakers, Sticks

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Less Is More, Environment

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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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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Honesty, Inspirational Life

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