A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
The best things in life aren't things.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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