454 quotes
“Our life is frittered away by detail simplify simplify”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves slowly and simply”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
— Hans Hofmann
“Smile breathe and go slowly”
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you do not”
— Joshua Becker
“Unborn Buddha mind is the most simple and direct truth”
— Bankei
“The most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itself”
— Wallace Stevens
“Creativity is subtraction”
— Austin Kleon
“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction”
— John Maeda
“Simplicity patience compassion. These three are your greatest treasures leading to peace.”
— Laozi
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few”
— Pythagoras
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity goodness and truth”
— Leo Tolstoy
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that would suffice.”
— Meister Eckhart
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity I would not give a fig but for the simplicity that lies on the other side I would give my life”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler”
— Albert Einstein
“There is a voice that doesnt use words listen to it for it speaks in simplicity”
— Rumi
“I know that I know nothing and in that simple admission lies the beginning of wisdom”
— Socrates
“Less but better”
— Dieter Rams
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Plato
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
— Cicero
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life”
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength”
— Saint Francis de Sales
“Emptiness is not nothingness it is a richness of potential”
— Kenya Hara
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
— Haruki Murakami
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or pride”
— Pablo Neruda
“Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone”
— Lin Yutang
“Do nothing which is of no use”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Right now its like this”
— Ajahn Sumedho
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin carbohydrates and a monthly salary”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts when we keep things simple enough to see the whole”
— Aristotle
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
— Abraham Lincoln
“To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.”
— Thomas Moore
“The mind should be nowhere in particular let it fill the whole body”
— Takuan Soho
“To attain knowledge add things every day to attain wisdom remove things every day”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance”
— Coco Chanel
“It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor simplicity cures that poverty”
— Seneca
“Too lazy to be ambitious I let the world take care of itself”
— Ryokan
“Less is more”
— Robert Browning
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“Nature is not a place to visit it is home”
— Gary Snyder
“Complexity is your enemy and any fool can make something complicated”
— Richard Branson
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
— Alan Watts
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”
— Erich Fromm
“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit developed through simple consistent practice”
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper”
— Alvar Aalto
“Beauty is not in the face beauty is a light in the heart”
— Khalil Gibran
“Walking and walking the green mountains never end”
— Santoka Taneda
“The real core of my work is the way light enters a space”
— Peter Zumthor
“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”
— Epictetus
“Having less makes you happier this is one of the simplest and most profound truths of human experience”
— Fumio Sasaki
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
— Huang Po
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
— Lao Tzu
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”
— Dogen Zenji
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
— Auguste Rodin
“The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.”
— Zhuangzi
“Our life is frittered away by detail so simplify”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
— Maya Angelou
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“Small is beautiful and simple is sustainable”
— E.F. Schumacher
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty I think only how to solve the problem”
— Buckminster Fuller
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself”
— Henry Miller
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“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”
— Ikkyu
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.”
— Unknown
“The world is vast and wide why do you put on your robes at the sound of a bell”
— Yunmen
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks”
— John Muir
“Live simply so that others may simply live”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
— Kobayashi Issa
“If you wish to be a writer write”
“Beauty speaks like an oracle and ever since man has heeded its message in many ways”
— Luis Barragan
“When you love someone the best thing you can offer is your presence and that offering is beautifully simple”
“Open your arms to change but dont let go of your values keep your life simple by holding what matters”
— Dalai Lama
“Travel light live light spread the light be the light”
— Yogi Bhajan
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end then stop. This is the simplest creative advice.”
— Lewis Carroll
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity and the height of simplicity is natural action”
— Bruce Lee
“True beauty is not made it is born naturally”
— Sori Yanagi
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers”
— Josef Albers
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and that is the power of simplicity”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop simply and without regret”
“Complicating is easy simplifying is difficult”
— Bruno Munari
“I do the same thing over and over improving bit by bit”
— Jiro Ono
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
— Hermann Hesse
“When walking walk. When eating eat.”
— Zen Proverb
“The height of sophistication is simplicity”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“Have you eaten your rice porridge Then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“If you want to be happy, be.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“The living moment is everything”
— D.H. Lawrence
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”
— Edwin Way Teale
“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The miracle is not to walk on water but to walk on the green earth in the present moment simply and with awareness”
“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”
— Edith Wharton
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
— Gautama Buddha
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“The duty of delight is to find beauty and simplicity in everyday things”
— Dorothy Day
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the simplest and greatest accomplishment”
“Be as simple as you can be and you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated”
— Confucius
“The things you own end up owning you simplicity breaks that chain of ownership”
— Joshua Fields Millburn
“In my designs I try to achieve simplicity by exploiting natural light and the beauty of materials”
— Tadao Ando
“Most humans are never fully present in the now because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important simplicity says otherwise”
— Eckhart Tolle
“To be great be whole exclude nothing”
— Fernando Pessoa
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Matsuo Basho
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and keeping them simple”
— William Morris
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful”
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love people and use things because the opposite never works and simplicity makes this clear”
“He who is contented is rich.”
“Design is not just what it looks like design is how it works and the best designs work simply”
— Steve Jobs
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
— Mark Twain
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide keep it that simple”
— Pema Chodron
“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.”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant about our own simplicity”
“I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”
— Lope de Vega
“In life there are things that make your heart beat faster in delight”
— Sei Shonagon
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“Less but better is the essence of good design and good living”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”
“You are therefore I am”
— Satish Kumar
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become”
“When you reach the top of the mountain keep climbing”
“The way of the essentialist is the path of being true to yourself and your highest contribution keeping life simple and focused”
— Greg McKeown
“The simplest things are often the truest.”
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do”
— Thomas Jefferson
“A line is a dot that went for a walk”
— Paul Klee
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
— Aesop
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”
— Warren Buffett
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“The thief left it behind the moon at my window”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
— Jane Austen
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go”
— Mooji
“Simplicity is the seal of truth.”
— Herman Boerhaave
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
“If it isnt a clear yes then it should be a clear no and that clarity is the gift of simplicity”
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here”
— Italo Calvino
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water. After enlightenment chop wood carry water.”
“Super Normal is the result of a long tradition of evolutionary advancement in the shape of everyday things”
— Jasper Morrison
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify and find peace.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“When hungry eat when tired sleep fools may laugh at me but wise men will know what I mean”
— Linji
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
— Charles Schulz
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done it is about how to get the right things done”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself”
“A single rose can be my garden and a single friend my world.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”
“This is my simple religion there is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy just kindness and wonder”
“As you start to walk on the way the way appears and the way is always simple”
“You can observe a lot by watching”
— Yogi Berra
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“If you do not prioritize your life someone else will”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts and that beauty is found in simplicity”
— Rachel Carson
“Simplicity is complexity resolved”
— Brancusi
“Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space I consider sculpture”
— Isamu Noguchi
“Simple can be harder than complex”
“We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness but happiness is found in simplicity not in escape”
— Leo Babauta
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”
“Just this is it”
— Dongshan
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who cut through argument and doubt to offer a clear solution.”
— Colin Powell
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Receive without conceit release without struggle keep things simple”
“The secret of happiness you see is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
— Wendell Berry
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“There are no uninteresting things only uninterested people”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“The greatest sophistication is found in the simplest things”
“Every day is a good day”
— Ummon
“Before we can talk about simplicity we must understand complexity”
— Konosuke Matsushita
“What is the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary”
— Gary Keller
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does and keeps his path simple”
“Own only what you can always carry with you. Let your memory be your travel bag and find peace in traveling light.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty”
— Kenko Yoshida
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“Once you fall into a reflective life you discover how little you need”
— Virginia Woolf
“My religion is very simple my religion is compassion and kindness toward all beings”
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you”
“It is not a daily increase but a daily decrease hack away the unessential”
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone.”
“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great”
— Willa Cather
“A work needs only to be interesting”
— Donald Judd
“Find beauty in imperfection and accept the natural cycle of growth and decay”
— Wabi Sabi Philosophy
“Truly happy memories always live on shining more and more beautifully in the heart even as time passes”
— Banana Yoshimoto
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
— Mother Teresa
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Everybody is talented original and has something important to say”
— Brenda Ueland
“It is what it is and it aint nothing else”
— Dan Flavin
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
— William of Ockham
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Karl Barth
“Success is not the key to happiness happiness is the key to success”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Less is more in art in life and in the pursuit of meaning”
“Simple can be harder than complex you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple”
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself.”
“Good design is as little design as possible”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance”
— Epicurus
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water After enlightenment chop wood carry water”
“A life of simplicity is a life of truth and a life of truth needs no defense”
— Gandhi
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed it is a process of simplification”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Stillness is the key to all good things in life”
— Ryan Holiday
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause and of obstinacy in a bad one”
— Laurence Sterne
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts mind there are few”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Colors blind the eye sounds deafen the ear”
“God is in the details”
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Design is so simple that is why it is so complicated”
— Paul Rand
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
“Absorb what is useful discard what is not add what is uniquely your own”
“In nature nothing exists alone and this interconnection is understood best through simple observation”
“One can never have enough socks a good pair of thick winter socks can bring one closer to that simple peace of solitude”
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”
“The spiritual life is not about acquiring it is about letting go”
“The key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”
— Amma
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming not for the person we were in the past”
— Marie Kondo
“The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“A calm mind a fit body and a house full of love cannot be bought they must be earned”
— Naval Ravikant
“True beauty is born of the imperfect”
— Soetsu Yanagi
“Everyday mind is the way”
— Nansen
“The art of living is more like navigation than warfare for what is important is to understand the winds and ride the waves simply”
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
— Helen Keller
“Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all and it comes simply”
“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
— Papa Ramadas
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee and revery.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
— Michelangelo
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in creative work.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
“A beautiful thing is never perfect it is simply itself in its natural simplicity”
— Publilius Syrus
“Accept everything just the way it is”
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple that is creativity”
— Charles Mingus
“Peace is always beautiful.”
— Walt Whitman
“Less is only more where more is no good and simplicity knows the difference”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Life is simple it is just not easy but simplicity makes even the hard parts bearable”
— William Wordsworth
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives”
— Annie Dillard
“Simplify simplify simplify”
— Thoreau
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“Minimalism is just a tool to rid yourself of unnecessary things so that you can focus on what matters”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend”
“Simplicity boils down to two steps identify the essential and eliminate the rest”
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you simply without problems or pride.”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”
“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.”
“Live each present moment completely and the future will take care of itself enjoy life simply”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
— Amelia Earhart
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“There is more to life than increasing its speed and simplicity reveals what that more is”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished through simplicity”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness”
“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
“If it is not a clear yes then it is a clear no”
— Derek Sivers
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.”
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity and simplicity is the clearest path to service”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“Our life in family is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.”
— Tolstoy
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent it takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction”
“I apologize for such a long letter I did not have time to write a short one”
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design and in life simplicity cures it”
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”
— Thomas Merton
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“In limitations he first shows himself the master and the law can only give us freedom through simplicity”
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
“Do small things with great love and keep your intentions simple and pure”
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself”
“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”
“Minimalism is a tool to get rid of excess in favor of what matters”
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness and that appreciation is simple”
“I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”
— Blaise Pascal
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“The essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions about life”
— Arne Naess
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”
— Hafiz
“Design dissolving in behavior is the most supreme form of design”
— Naoto Fukasawa
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
“If the only prayer you say in your entire life is thank you that will suffice because simplicity is enough”
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”
“A truly great person is one who is simple natural and unpretentious”
— Ikeda Daisaku
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool simplicity reveals the difference”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart”
“Simplicity is complexity resolved into harmony”
— Constantin Brancusi
“The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the simplest things hold the deepest wonder”
“Simplicity patience compassion these three are your greatest treasures”
“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
— Julius Charles Hare
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones simply one at a time”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonder”
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
“The more you know the less you need”
— Yvon Chouinard
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.”
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
“The value of art is in the observer when you find truth you find beauty”
— Agnes Martin
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
“The rain has stopped the clouds have drifted away and the weather is clear again”
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.”
— William Ellery Channing
“The sage does not hoard the more he gives to others the more he has for himself through simplicity”
“Simplicity patience and compassion are the three greatest treasures a person can possess”
“That love is all there is, is all we know of love.”
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac
“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing more to remove and that is pure simplicity”
“We think that the more we have the happier we will be but we learn that the opposite is often true”
“Before you leave the house look in the mirror and take one thing off simplicity is the final touch”
“Complexity is your enemy any fool can make something complicated it takes a genius to make something simple”
“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am and that realization is utterly simple”
“Mindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“Out of clutter find simplicity from discord find harmony in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
“The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness”
— Massimo Vignelli
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”
— William Shakespeare
“The whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”
— Dipa Ma
“Less is only more where more is no good”
“If you cant explain it simply you dont understand it well enough”
“The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The simplicity on the other side of complexity is worth more than the simplicity before it”
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”
— Simone Weil
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world”
— E.B. White
“When we start to feel the shortage of resources simplicity becomes our greatest teacher”
— D.T. Suzuki
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”
“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 soul of a tree lives on in my furniture”
— George Nakashima
“Owning less is better than organizing more because simplicity beats complexity every time”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self”
— Aldous Huxley
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies and small is simple”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple”
— C.W. Ceram
“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple and yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves”
“I would have written a shorter letter but I did not have the time because brevity requires simplicity”
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance”
“Knowing how to simplify is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”
— Carl Jung
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. True peace needs no crown.”
— Frederick the Great
“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”
“When you put your house in order you put your affairs and your past in order too and that process is simple”
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you dont”
“Better a handful of dried dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.”
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee and revery”
“The best is the enemy of the good”
— Voltaire
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple”
“There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies my brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness”
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“The earth has enough for everyones need but not for everyones greed”
— Vandana Shiva
“Find the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
— Ikigai Philosophy
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it”
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