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Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
Related topics: Wisdom
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
The architect should strive continually to simplify;
the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered
that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words.
Those who simplify the universe
only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Anais Nin
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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