Simplicity Quotes

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Simplicity is not a simple thing.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Simple, Simple Things

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

  "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine, 1923.

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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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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• Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Innocent, Scales

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• Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Greatness, Simplifying Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.100, Library of America

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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, Art, Time

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

  Dick Clark

  Simple, Television, Lasts

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• Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Purpose, Clutter

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• Since all the riches of this world
  May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings,
  I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil
  If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

  William Blake

  Kings, Devil, World

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.154, Wordsworth Editions

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• The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Lines, Best Things

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• Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Class, Self

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.350

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• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God,- purity apprehends and tastes Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Two, Wings

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• When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Conditioning

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

  Toni Onley

  Trying, Painting, Complicated

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• As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Giving, Perfect

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• God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

  Francois Fenelon

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.78, Lulu.com

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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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• To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Simple, Easy, Seems

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