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  The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

  "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.

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• When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Serenity, Pearls

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• Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Understanding

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Simplicity”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

  Thomas Eakins

  Simple, Painting, Complicated

  Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”

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• One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Garden, Mind, Arbitrary

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• Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

  Eric Lander

  Beautiful, Complexity, Clear

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• To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fire, Simple Life, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  Chris Prentiss

  Mind, Enlightenment, Experience

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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• Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

  Arthur Helps

  Giving, Foundation, Remember

  Sir Arthur Helps (1851). “Fruits of leisure, or Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.97

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• Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

  Laurence Sterne

  Silly, Would Be, Alliances

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.467

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• Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

  Philip Wylie

  Blessing, Simple Life, Needs

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• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Midsummer, Duty, Mid Summer Nights Dream

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• Simplicity is the key.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Keys

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• For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Jesus, Communication, Use

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2015

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

  Jonathan Ive

  Absence, Clutter, Simplicity In Design

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Science, Problem Solving

  The Concept of Nature ch. 7 (1920)

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Fantasy, Fragments

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• It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Mean, Expression, Economy

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Simple, Blue, Special

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

  Robert Henri

  Strong, Artist, Kind

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• By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Way, Tone

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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• Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

  Paul Klee

  Mistake, Mean, Want

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Simple, Monotony

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.89

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• Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Color, Two, Principles

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