🌾 Simplicity

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“In limitations he first shows himself the master and the law can only give us freedom through simplicity”

“Find beauty in imperfection and accept the natural cycle of growth and decay”

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

“Do nothing which is of no use”

“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity and the height of simplicity is natural action”

“If it is not a clear yes then it is a clear no”

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

“Less but better is the essence of good design and good living”

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

“Walking and walking the green mountains never end”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”

“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and keeping them simple”

“The art of living is more like navigation than warfare for what is important is to understand the winds and ride the waves simply”

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance”

“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it simplicity reclaims that wasted time”

“The duty of delight is to find beauty and simplicity in everyday things”

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”

“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does and keeps his path simple”

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and that is the power of simplicity”

“Absorb what is useful discard what is not add what is uniquely your own”

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts when we keep things simple enough to see the whole”

“Complicating is easy simplifying is difficult”

“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”

“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”

“Design is so simple that is why it is so complicated”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones simply one at a time”

“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”

“The essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions about life”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has through simplicity”

“Less but better”

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”

“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”

“Before we can talk about simplicity we must understand complexity”

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”

“We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness but happiness is found in simplicity not in escape”

“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you do not”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart”

“True beauty is not made it is born naturally”

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”