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