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  • 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.

    Life   Peace   Simple  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby
  • My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

  • Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Life   Business   Simple  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

    Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in "Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt", 1832.
  • I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

  • Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

    Simple   Two   Simplicity  
    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144
  • Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

    Motivational   Time   Art  
    "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.
  • Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.100, Library of America
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

    Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor
  • To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

    William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”
  • I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

    Nature   Animal   Garden  
    'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'
  • Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

    Life   Simple   Greed  
    Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”
  • The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

    Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
  • Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

    Simple   Men   Wings  
  • I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

    Running   Real   Believe  
    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.201, Yale University Press
  • The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  • Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

    Life   Happiness   Beauty  
    Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)
  • I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  • To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

    John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press
  • Live simply so that others may simply live.

  • Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  • The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

  • The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

    1967 Search for the Real.
  • Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  • It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

    Courage   Moving   Simple  
    "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.
  • The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

    Beautiful   Art   Block  
    Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”
  • How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

    Art   Real   Power  
  • If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

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