#simplicity

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. ↗

— Edward Teller

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Seek simplicity but distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

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To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it. No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you". ↗

— Richard O. Moore

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