I am a big fan of quotes, so i put the 30 Awesome quotes on Simplicity - “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” ~ Plato “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci “Simplicity is the glory of expression.” ~ Walt Whitman “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “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 “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” ~ William James “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” ~ Thor Heyerdahl “Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”~ Edwin Way Teale “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Lao Tzu “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” ~ Charles Warner “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” ~ Socrates “The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.” ~ Orison Marden “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” ~ Bruce Lee “Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” ~ Frederic Chopin “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin H. Fischer “It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.” ~ William of Occam “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” ~ William Morris “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~ Hans Hofmann “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ~ Leo Tolstoy “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” ~ Albert Einstein “Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.” ~ Edward Tuft “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden “How many things are there which I do not want.” ~ Socrates “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury…to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.” ~ Albert Einstein “Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.” ~ John Kabat-Zinn “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.” ~ Lin Yutang “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius…and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” ~ E.F. Schumacher “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.” ~ Lao Tzu
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:34:26 +0000
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