"Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being." — Peter Matthiessen

"Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being."

— Peter Matthiessen

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35 Quotes by Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of…
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had…
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow.…
This world is painted on a wild dark metal
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before…
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when…
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension,…
I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black…
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure…
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time,…
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes…

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The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any… — Isaac Asimov
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But… — Julian Assange
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,… — Teresa of Avila

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