#simplicity

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#emotion #emptiness #love #simplicity #death

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. ↗

— Laura Nyro

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There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

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The great seal of truth is simplicity. ↗

— Herman Boerhaave

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Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. ↗

— Robert James Waller

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The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. ↗

— Criss Jami

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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#humility #kitchen #kitchen-table #parliament #philosophical