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  The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

  "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.

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• One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Garden, Mind, Arbitrary

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• Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

  Eric Lander

  Beautiful, Complexity, Clear

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• Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

  David Seabury

  Simple, Thinking, Intellectual

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

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Purpose, Clutter

  "The Chasm of Dissonance: Explaining the 'dis-connects' that seem to haunt our world (Including the ones named Trump and Clinton)" by Michael Lissack, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2016.

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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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• To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fire, Simple Life, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  Chris Prentiss

  Mind, Enlightenment, Experience

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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• Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

  Arthur Helps

  Giving, Foundation, Remember

  Sir Arthur Helps (1851). “Fruits of leisure, or Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.97

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• Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

  Laurence Sterne

  Silly, Would Be, Alliances

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.467

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• Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

  Philip Wylie

  Blessing, Simple Life, Needs

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• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Midsummer, Duty, Mid Summer Nights Dream

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• Simplicity is the key.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Keys

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• For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Jesus, Communication, Use

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2015

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

  Jonathan Ive

  Absence, Clutter, Simplicity In Design

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Science, Problem Solving

  The Concept of Nature ch. 7 (1920)

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unity, Portraits, Landscape

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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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• My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

  Joan Miro

  Color, Three, Fields

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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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• 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, Self, Class

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

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• The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

  Matthew Arnold

  Poetry, Noble, Serious Subjects

  On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)

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• If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Fantasy, Fragments

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• The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Interesting, Essentials, Facts

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