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• Live simply so others may simply live.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Helping Others, Simply Happy

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Art, Simple

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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• Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

  Ovid

  Jewels, Found

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• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Expression, Culture

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

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• All the great things are simple.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Duty And Honor, Mercy

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

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• There is a majesty in simplicity.

  Alexander Pope

  Majesty

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• If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

  Frederick William Faber

  Sunshine, Simple, Would Be

  Frederick William Faber (1867). “Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber”, p.55

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• Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Simple

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Simple, Mind

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

  Thomas Moore

  Home, Practice, Soul

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• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Care, Too Much

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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Simplicity is the final achievement.

  Frederic Chopin

  Design, Achievement, Finals

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Greatness, Simplifying Life

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

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• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sex, Blue Dress

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

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• The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Great Freedom

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Perfection, Style

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Way, Treats

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• Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

  Francois Fenelon

  Reflection, Grace, Soul

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• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Simple Life, Criteria, Simple Beauty

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

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sweet, Real, Simple

  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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• How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Real, Power

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