#implicit

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. ↗

— John Maeda

#simplicity #business

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change. ↗

— Nancy Sleeth

#change #sanity #simplicity #stability #tradition

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#generosity #materialism #native-american-wisdom #simplicity #age

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#simplicity #equality

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it. ↗

— Elizabeth Enright

#fragilty #life-lessons #overdoing #simplicity #family

The greatest ideas are the simplest. ↗

— William Golding

#simplicity #inspirational

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#voluntarysimplicity #money

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#simplicity #nature

Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee. I once knew a woman, not very strong, who to the wonder of her friends went through a time of extraordinary hard work without any ill effects. I asked her for her secret and she told me that she was able to keep her health, under the strain, because she took 20 minutes, of each day in which to absolutely relax both mind and body. She did not even “set and think.” She lay at full length, every muscle and nerve relaxed and her mind as quiet as her body. This always relieved the strain and renewed her strength. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#business

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#simplicity #funny