My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.” —Joshua… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)” — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The simplicity of life is universal. Mother Nature is a wonderful teacher.” — Steve Leasock Copy Share Image
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
You might find it easy to fall in love with someone, the hard thing is how to keep that someone forever. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated… — Zoran Copy Share Image
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“Recursive metafiction worships the narrative consciousness, makes “it” the subject of the text. Minimalism’s even worse, emptier, because it’s a fraud: it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It's the most simple and smallest things in life that make you realize what true happiness is and what really matters. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Life is harder when you complicate the simple things. Enjoy what you have and live your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.” — Rohan Chalmers of Copy Share Image
“Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for… — Ceyhun Özsoylu Copy Share Image
You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves. — Toni Onley Copy Share Image
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
