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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #simplicity
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗
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Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15) ↗
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. ↗
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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. ↗
#humility #kitchen #kitchen-table #parliament #philosophical
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving. ↗
#love #simplicity #time #love
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. ↗
The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. ↗
