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• The greatest ideas are the simplest.

  William Golding

  Ideas, Insight, Simplest

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.181, Penguin

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• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Simple, Lasts

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Simple, One Day

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Work

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

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• There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Less Is More, Painting

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• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

  Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Work

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• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Kids

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Should, Simplify

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

  Bill Jensen

  Hard Work, Paradox, Hard

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• Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

  Francis of Assisi

  Simple, Joy, Holy

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• In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

  Alan Watts

  Poverty

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.84, New World Library

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• Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Prayer, Desire

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• The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

  Jacinto Benavente

  Our World, Size, Masters

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• Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

  Mark Coleman

  Happy, Nature, Contentment

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• Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.

  Ela Bhatt

  Beautiful, Hate, Lying

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• May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

  Richard J. Foster

  Numbers, Giving, Priorities

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

  Katrina Kenison

  Enjoy

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• I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

  Oliver Stone

  Comfortable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  Karl Popper

  Funny, Art, Crazy

  1982 Quoted in the Observer,1Aug.

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• The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

  George Santayana

  Men, Simple Life, Spirit

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.204, 谷月社

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• Seek simplicity but distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Distrust

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• Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Intense, Complexity

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.623, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Simple Life, Want

  1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.

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