#simplicity

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom. ↗

— William George Jordan

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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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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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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#enough #journey #just #life #making

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#simplicity #life

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#concussion #simplicity #beauty

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

— John Maeda

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