Simplicity Quotes - Page 13

• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Wisdom, Writing

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Desire, Littles

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• Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

  Criss Jami

  Contentment, Bliss

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sadness

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• May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faith, May, Enough

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Prayer, Sleep

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

  John Piper

  Worry, Generosity, Accumulation

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• Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Essence, Design

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.273

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• Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

  Charlotte Mason

  Profound, Language, Purity

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Found, Repetition

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• A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

  Hermann Weyl

  Simple, Principles, Details

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Simple, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

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• The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sweet, Three, Percent

  'Endymion' (1880) ch. 91.

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• The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Evil, Mind

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• The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.

  Mooji

  Letting Go, Effort, Care

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• All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.

  Gangaji

  Struggle, Self, Relaxed

  Gangaji (2007). “You Are That”, p.72, Sounds True

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• I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Happy, Teacher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

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• Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Writing, Caring

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.225, Anchor

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• One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Christian, Brother

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  Steve Jobs

  Hard Work, Simple, Order

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• I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Innovation, Saying Yes

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• simplicity is the best sophistication

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sophistication

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