Simplicity Quotes - Page 2

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Success is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.

Henri Deterding

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Economy prudence and a simple life are the sure masters of need and will often accomplish that which their opposites with a fortune at hand will fail to do.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

If you aren't going all the way why go at all?

What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all.

Anonymous

Love and do what you like.

Saint Augustine

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Richard Halloway

I searched through rebellion drugs diet mysticism religion intellectual-ism and much more only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good clear and right.

If you walk just walk. If you sit just sit. But whatever you do don't wobble.

Anonymous

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them.

Louisa May Alcott

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Johann von Goethe

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple awesomely simple that's creativity.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

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. E. Schumacher

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first and pity him afterwards.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Keep breathing.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Sherwood Anderson

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Confucius

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Anonymous

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over steadily almost irresistibly like falling snow.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear the way children see it?

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.

Buddhist proverb

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.

Dr. Melvin Konner

If you don't like something about yourself change it. If you can't change it accept it.

Ted Shackelford

There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Anonymous

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow the mother washing her baby the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side we overintel-lectualize everything on the other hand we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

Edward Steichen

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivier

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

Muriel Humphrey

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

To be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

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-Frédéric Amiel

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W Somerset Maugham

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.

Dame Rebecca West

Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

G.K. Chesterton

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.

G.K. Chesterton

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