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• The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

  Annie Dillard

  Hands, Healthy, World

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• In the beginning was simplicity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• Bless thy simplicity, Tess

  Thomas Hardy

  Bless, Tess

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.47, Broadview Press

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• Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Children, Fall

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• Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

  Robert James Waller

  Real, Challenges, Easy

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.168, Random House

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• The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Eye, Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Problem

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Simple, Light

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• In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

  Albert Camus

  Past, Oil, Silence

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.15, Vintage

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• In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Humans, Simpletons

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• The most complicated skill
  Is to be simple.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Simple, Skills, Complicated

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

  Amish Tripathi

  Everyday, Important, Realising

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• I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

  Madeline Miller

  Heart, Cutting, People

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

  Brian Weiss

  Action, Tendencies, Diminish

  Brian L. Weiss (2012). “Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Yo”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Spiritual, Spirituality

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Simple, Needs, Inward

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.181, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, People

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 16, 2014

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• The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Voice, Way, Tao Of Pooh

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• A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

  T. S. Eliot

  Quartets, Conditions

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• simplicity is the key of elegance

  Coco Chanel

  Keys, Elegance

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• A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Loss, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.288

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• There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Believe, Simple

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• People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Firsts

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Time, Appreciate

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• It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Might, Invention

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