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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Reliability

  "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.virginia.edu. June 18, 1975.

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• From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Profound, Naive

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  Wumen Huikai

  Simple, Mind, Tiny Things

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• It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.11, Litres

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• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

  Francois Fenelon

  Blessed, May, Spirit

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• The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Simple Life, Favourite

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• To know you have enough is to be rich.

  Laozi

  Chinese, Rich, Enough

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Cute Life, Obvious

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

  Rene Descartes

  Encouragement, Philosophical, Planning

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes, 1637.

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• The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Modern, Destroying

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• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Strong, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

  Plato

  Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

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• Simplicity is not a simple thing.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Simple, Simple Things

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• Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  Alan Perlis

  Simple Life, Doe, Pragmatists

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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• The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Inspiring, Littles

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• By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

  Agesilaus II

  Liberty, Golden, Sowing

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• The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Creativity, Important, Aspect

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

  "Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Trust

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Culture, Matter, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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