25 quotes for the simplicity of life

7/28/2019 25 Quotes for the Simplicity of Life

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The Simplicity Of LifeYou have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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I dont need a lot of money.

Simplicity is the answer for me.

- Linda McCartney


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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,

and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot

of courage to move in the opposite direction."- E. F. Schumacker


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As I grew older, I realized that itwas

much better to insist on the genuine

forms of nature, for simplicity is the

greatest adornment of art.

- Albrecht Durer


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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.- Henry David Thoreau


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"Enjoy the little things, for one day

you may look back and realize

they were the big things."- Robert Brault


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I have a simple philosophy. Fill

whats empty. Empty whats full.

And scratch where it itches.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth


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I have just three things to

teach: simplicity, patience,

compassion. These three are

your greatest treasures.

- Lao Tzu


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"If your mind isnt clouded by

unnecessary things, this is

the best season of your life."- Wu-Men


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"It is not how much space there is, but

rather how it is used. It is not how much

information there is, but rather how

effectively it is organized."

- Edward Tufte


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"Part of the problem today is that we

have a surplus of simple answers and

a shortage of simple problems."- Syracuse Herald


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"Reduce the complexity of life

by eliminating the needless

wants of life, and the labors

of life reduce themselves."- Edwin Way Teale


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"Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence

of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should

belong intimately to the design proper, and thatanything foreign

to it should be taken away.

- Paul Jacques Grillo


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Simplicity is making the journey of

this life with just baggage enough.- Charles Dudley Warner


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Simplicity is not the goal. It is

the by-product of a good idea

and modest expectations.

- Paul Rand


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"The ability to simplify means to

eliminate the unnecessary so that

the necessary may speak."- Hans Hofmann


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"Simplicity is an exact medium

between too little and too much."- Joshua Reynold


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"The trouble with simple

living is that, though it can

be joyful, rich, and creative,

itisnt simple."

- Doris Janzen Longacre


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Think simple as my old masterused to say - meaning reduce

the whole of its parts into the

simplest terms, getting back

to first principles.

- Frank Lloyd Wright


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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter

find simplicity; From discord find

harmony; In the middle of difficulty

lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein


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"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your

affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or

a thousand We are happy in proportion to

the things we can do without."- Henry David Thoreau


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"We dont need to increase our goods nearly

as much as we need to scale down our wants.

Not wanting something is as good aspossessing it." - Donald Horban


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"I am beginning to learn that it

is the sweet, simple things in life

which are the real ones after all."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied; he must know how


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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." - Henri Frederic Amiel


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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary

burdens. If you have them, you have to take

care of them! There is great freedom in

simplicity of living. It is those who have

enough but not too much who are thehappiest. - Peace Pilgrim

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