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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
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Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simple child-like attitude would create
a less stressful and happier life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What if happiness were found in the serenity of simple pleasures.
What if we didn't need the newest gizmo... the highest high?
What if happiness is in the air we breathe...
slowly, deeply, and consciously?
What if happiness is one fresh grape, savored with gratitude?
What if happiness is in our oneness with all creation?
What if happiness is about enjoying life exactly as it comes to us -
without chasing after it?
What if happiness is something we CHOOSE...
regardless of our circumstances?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use
and a finer sense of comfort,
expressed in organic simplicity.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The simple life is everything Vogue isn't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
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