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• I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.

  Alison Sweeney

  Beautiful, Children, Fun

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• We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on the verge of tears. "We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don't want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara

  Terry Goodkind

  Simple, Laughing, Tears

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.207, RosettaBooks

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• There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

  William George Jordan

  Simple, Our World, Escaping

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• Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

  Chinua Achebe

  Simple, People, World

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Mar 20, 2011

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• Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Taken, Simple, World

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• simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Simple, People

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• I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.�Someone, from the bottom of my heart...�Straightforward, unwavering...�It seems like such a simple thing, so then why....�...Must it be so incredibly hard?

  Ai Yazawa

  Heart, Simple, Care

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• We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Fun, Home

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• Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

  Bil Keane

  Tired, Simple, Needs

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• What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Two, Telling The Truth

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

  Alice Meynell

  Simple, Looks, Sides

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Simple, Paint

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• The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Life, Simple, Self

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

  Queen Latifah

  Simple, Things In Life, Bigs

  BBC Interview, January 2003.

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• It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Simple, Trying, Remember

  Theodore Sturgeon (1984). “Alien cargo”, St Martins Press

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• The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

  John Tesh

  Running, Dream, Simple

  John Tesh (2012). “Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Crazy, Home, Simple

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• It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

  David Lynch

  Simple, Ideas, Cards

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• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Simple, Things In Life, Parks

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• Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

  Andy Stanley

  Morning, Sunday, Simple

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• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Simple, Taking Things For Granted

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

  Brian Tracy

  Simple, Important, Spontaneous

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• All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

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