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Wise Quotes about Simplify

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Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

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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


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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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