Simplicity Quotes

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My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know that this will… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. — Horace
To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting… — John Ortberg
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. — George Meredith
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the… — Hakeem Olajuwon
Live simply that others might simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. — William Shakespeare
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail… — Matthieu Ricard
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is… — Matthieu Ricard
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in… — Matthieu Ricard
See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things — Laozi
How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being,… — Francis Frangipane
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers,… — Rajneesh
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and… — Albert Einstein

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