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  • Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

  • We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

    Life   Truth   Age  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS
  • The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

    Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.271, Courier Corporation
  • I just wanna perform, I wanna get back on the scene, I wanna do all the festivals and stuff like that. I don't necessarily want to do all the bullshit that comes with it, like tons and tons of interviews, unnecessary things and all that.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

    "The Conquest of Happiness".
  • I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

    School   Light   People  
  • Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

  • I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

    Jobs   Memories   Block  
    Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.8, Hachette UK
  • Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

  • It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

    Mistake   Moving   Hands  
  • The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

    Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Basic Books
  • See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles, you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost in unnecessary things.

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

    1967 Search for the Real.
  • If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  • People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

    Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications
  • So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

    Men   Rocks   Self  
    William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press
  • When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

    Freedom   Nice   Air  
    Chogyam Trungpa (2013). “The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three”, p.761, Shambhala Publications
  • There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.

    RZA
    Wise   Fall   People  
    Source: www.complex.com
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