#simplicity

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#simple-living #simplicity #life

My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care. ↗

— Sue Bender

#love

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#simplicity #nature

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#simplicity #writing #words

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#sophistication #ultimate

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#ignorance #ridiculous #sucking-up #simplicity

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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One should use common words to say uncommon things ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#naivete #simplicity #writing #simplicity

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. ↗

— David Levithan

#truth #simplicity

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ↗