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• Henry David Thoreau is very independent-minded, very iconoclastic, and had quite a corrosive sense of humor. I think that I probably have grown up to have a Thoreauvian perspective on many things. Though in other ways I live a life he would not have approved of. He believed to simplify, simplify, simplify. Make your life very clear and plain and meditative and not confused. Sometimes my life, in fact, is confused.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Confused, Independent, Thinking

  "America's Foremost Woman of Letters". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

  Keith Rabois

  Mean, Editors, Red

  "How To Start A Startup". Y Combinator’s CS183B Stanford Class. Lecture 14: How to Operate,

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

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Simplicity, Simple Life, Criteria

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• The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But actually doing it may prove to be one of the real challenges in our complicated, overheated lives.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Real, Challenges, Balance

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• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

  Rico Lebrun

  Cutting, Essence

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

  David Allen

  May, Values

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• My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, Sweat, Style

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• Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire Consider.Reflect Cultivate oneself.Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration Lighten up Celebrate and appreciate Dream Give thanks Evolve Love Share.Give.Receive Walk softly.Live gently Expand.Radiate.Dissolve Simplify Surrender.Trust Be born anew

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Dream, Buddhist

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• In our search to obtain relief from the stresses of life, may we earnestly seek ways to simplify our lives. May we comply with the inspired counsel and direction the Lord has given us in the great plan of happiness. May we be worthy to have the companionship of the Holy Ghost and follow the guidance of the Spirit as we navigate this mortal journey. May we prepare ourselves to accomplish the ultimate purpose of this mortal test-to return and live with our Heavenly Father.

  L. Tom Perry

  Stress, Father, Journey

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• One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Rainy Day, Practice, Debt

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• Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

  Philippe Kahn

  Looks, Want, Faces

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• I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

  George Clooney

  "George Clooney Not A Fan Of Social Media" by Nationalledger.com, September 23, 2011.

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• True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Management, Christ, Consecration

  J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.88, Kregel Publications

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• Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving, Meditation, Divinity

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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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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• President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

  David Letterman

  Blue, President, Want

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• We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Treasure, Earth

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• Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Beautiful, Cutting, Simple

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• There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Opportunity, People, Analysis

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• Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

  Toyo Ito

  Needs, Use, Architecture

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  Amanda Palmer

  Girl, Bisexual, Thinking

  "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Karman Kregloe, www.afterellen.com. July 18, 2007.

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• I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it's easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Thinking, Mad

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