Simplicity Quotes
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim -
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Constantin Brancusi
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina -
The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.
Buddy Valastro -
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.
Dalai Lama -
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)
Douglas Coupland -
Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way.
V V Brown -
The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
Tove Lo -
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
Anton Chekhov -
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Edward Witten -
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
Tim Ferriss -
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
Bill Vaughan
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
Henry Ward Beecher -
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer -
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
Chogyam Trungpa -
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
Alan Hovhaness -
Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.
Coco J. Ginger -
I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.
Alex Honnold
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I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.
Brian Stelfreeze -
What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
Desmond Llewelyn -
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey -
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.
Anne Burrell