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Simplicity Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
More Simplicity Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac