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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
Philippe Nericault Destouches
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
Thomas Kempis
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
Charles Fillmore
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?
William Morris
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
Jean de la Bruyere
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier
It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.http://www.eckhartsociety.org/meister.htm
Meister Eckhart, Talks of Instru
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner
I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
Charles Montesquieu
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
An Wang
I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ......Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things
Edward Abbey, Confessions of a B
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no language of the holy.The sacred lies in the ordinary.
Deng MingDao
See it big, and keep it simple.
Wilferd A. Peterson
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
John Macy
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Charlie Munger
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
