Simplest Quotes

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The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about… — Richard Bach
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. — Karl Barth
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. — Phillips Brooks
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and… — Carol P. Christ
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. — Carl von Clausewitz
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our… — William Kingdon Clifford
Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do… — Gennadius of Constantinople
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open. — Agnes de Mille
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can… — Charles Spurgeon
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. — Mark Twain
Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course… — Mary Alice
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the… — Coleman Dowell
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want… — Bernie Siegel
Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit… — Barack Obama
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. — Henry David Thoreau
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. — Charles Peguy
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who… — Aldous Huxley

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