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• This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Definitions, Emptiness

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspiring, Nature, Ifs

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

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• I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

  Nella Larsen

  Spiritual, Laughter, Pride

  Nella Larsen (2013). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Heart, Humanity, Genius

  Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr

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• Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

  Ann Voskamp

  Focus, Matter

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• It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Religious, Silly, Ignorance

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• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Lying, Giving

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

  Jared Diamond

  Consistency, Complicated, Enterprise

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.322, Penguin

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• The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Life And Love, Believe, Past

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• Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

  Jack Kornfield

  Simple, Students, Frugal

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• We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  Anne Bishop

  Real, Giving, Stories

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• Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Belief, Protection

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• She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Saws, Awful

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.125, Broadview Press

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• Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Self, Consciousness, Substitutes

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• Simplicity is a matter of taste

  Stephen Hawking

  Matter, Taste

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• If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ignorant, Fool, Ridiculous

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Clothes, Grace

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.32, 谷月社

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• So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Art, Simple

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Native American, Generosity

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• A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Home, Boys

  Mark Twain (2012). “Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

  Osamu Dazai

  Mean, Simple, Decision

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Campaigns, Advertising

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