#implicit

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#art #measure #qualities #repose #simplicity

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#bother #calculated #far #foreigner #french

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #intelligent #knowledgeable #love #nationalism

You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need. ↗

— Sandy Kreps

#life

we used to play around with our implicitly, we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self, until there is one thing that may be forgotten: is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it? ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#happiness #implicitly #incomplete #love #we

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#let-go #letting-go #motivation #simplicity #surrender

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without. ↗

— Amy Dacyczyn

#voluntary-simplicity #money

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#existence #nature #simplicity #nature

They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#marriage #simplicity-in-life #love

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy