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At its heart, life is simple

• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
• Life is not complex. We are complex.  Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. Oscar Wilde
• Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. Karen Maezen Miller
• At the end of life, our questions are very simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well? Jack Kornfield
• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. The Dalai Lama
• To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. Donald Altman
• I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. Sir Laurence Olivier
• Life is beautiful in its simplicity. Thomas Matthiessen
• Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. Marty Rubinunnecess
• Simplicity,  Savour life’s simple joys,  Minimalism,  Life is in the little things

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However, we have a way of making things more complicated and complex than they need to be

• But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed. Muriel Barbery
• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• The simpler the deeper. We have a way of making things too complicated. Shawn McNiff
• Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. Thor-Heyerdahl
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
• One of the great maladies of our time is the way sophistication seems to be valued above common sense. Norman Cousins
• The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana
• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.  Norman Vincent Peale
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Simplify your life

• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. Eleanor Roosevelt
• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. Henri Frederic Amiel
• The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can. Seneca
• Make room for yourself in your life by keeping it simple. Stephen C. Paul
• Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you. Steve Maraboli

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A simpler life creates more space for what you love

• Such a simplified lifestyle can be truly wonderful – you’ll finally have time for the things you really love, for relaxation, for outdoor activities, for exercise, for reading or finding peace and quiet, for the loved ones in your life, for the things you’re most passionate about. This is what it means to thrive – to live a life full of the things you want in them, and not more. To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume. Leo Babauta
• Simplifying isn’t meant to leave your life empty – it’s meant to leave space in your life for what you really want to do. Know what those things are before you start simplifying. Leo Babauta
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A simpler life brings greater contentment and happiness

• If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. The Dalai Lama
• With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge. Tracey Smith
• Simplicity is the essence of happiness. Cedric Bledsoe
• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions –  that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.  Bob Hope
• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. Lester Levenson
• Life is amazingly good when it’s simple and amazingly simple when it’s good. Terri Guillemets
• Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. Karen Maezen Miller
• We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without. Henry David Thoreau
• Simplicity makes me happy.  Alicia Keys
• Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment’s suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we are not grasping for pleasure, and even our troubles are received with thanksgiving. This inner harmony, and this deliverance from fear and the tormenting desires of self, create a satisfaction in the soul which is above all the intoxicating joys of this world put together.  François Fenelon
• Contentment,  Happiness

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A simpler life brings greater peace

• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well- being that places harmony in one’s life. Peace Pilgrim
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A simpler life brings greater success

• The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled– Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity. Peace Pilgrim
• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. Norman Lear
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A simpler life is better for the mind and body

• 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 both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein

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A simpler life makes more space for others

• Live simply so that others may simply live. Elizabeth Ann Seton

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A simpler life brings greater inner and outer harmony

• I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them. Ann Morrow Lindbergh
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A simpler life does more with less

• Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. Dr. Koichi Kawana
• Don’t use a lot where a little will do. Proverb
• With few there is attainment. With much there is confusion. Lao Tzu
• Less is more. Mies van der Rohe
• Have less. Do less. Be more. Aboodi Shaby

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A simpler life allows you to do your best work

• Once you simplify your life you begin, perhaps again, to do your best work. You can start all over again, to live your best life, whatever that is for you. Elaine St James
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A simpler life lets you be who you are and reveals your potential

• When we apply simplicity to our own lives, when we strip away the unnecessary, the extraneous from ourselves, we become more truly who we are, and as such we reveal the potential we were born to express. Jennifer Kavanagh
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A simpler life is good for your spiritual path

• As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so there is a yearning for a simpler life; as we simplify our life, so the inner voice becomes clearer. Jennifer Kavanagh
• Simplify your life. You don’t grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. Steve Maraboli
• The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity.  Jean-Yves Leloup
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A simpler life taps into our essential nature

• Our essential nature is pure potentiality, infinite creativity, pure joy, pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, simplicity and bliss. Deepak Chopra
• Integrate these principles and habits deep within your nature; into your basic character: integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, modesty. Stephen Covey
• Awaken to who you really are

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Simple living is greatly worthwhile but no simple challenge

• The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple. Doris Janzen Longacre

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Simplifying your life takes courage, creativity and a touch of genius

• Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean, to make it simple. Steve Jobs
• 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. F. Schumacher
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingu
• It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple. Steve Jobs
• Creativity defeats complication with simplicity, overcomes fear with empowerment, and discovers order by achieving balance. Michael Rawls
• Creativity,  Courage,  Genius

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Simplify your life through the power of focus

• Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. Ann Voskamp
• Focus is about finding simplicity in this Age of Distraction. Leo Babauta
• Focus and simplicity…once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs
• That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Steve Jobs
• 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.  Henry David Thoreau
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Simplify your life by doing only what is in front of you

• In a simple life in which you only do what’s in front of you, there can be no overwhelm, ever. That life is yours to create. And it never arrives, it must be created. Steve Chandler

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Simplify your life by having a singleness of purpose

• Voluntary simplicity involves both inner and outer condition. It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and honesty within, as well as avoidance of exterior clutter, of many possessions irrelevant to the chief purpose of life. It means an ordering and guiding of our energy and our desires, a partial restraint in some directions in order to secure greater abundance in other directions. Richard Gregg
• Simplify everything. Two natural byproducts of knowing and living your life purpose are focus and simplicity. Keep whatever is needed to help you live your purpose and get rid of everything else. Brad Swift
• Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. Richard Halloway
• Simplicity is clearly a sign of a pure heart, i.e., a single purpose. Also, because environment has an undeniable influence on character, simplicity of living would help to stimulate and maintain such singleness of purpose. Richard Gregg
• Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose  Henry David Thoreau
• Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. Dan Millman
• A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.  Victoria Moran
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Simplify your life by slowing down and consuming less

• Simplicity slows down life and frees us from this modern hysteria to live faster. It finds freedom to disengage. It seeks to keep only the essentials. It seeks to remove the frivolous and keeps the significant. Joshua Becker
• Simplicity invites us to slow down, consume less, but enjoy more. Joshua Becker
• But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Sandra Cisneros
• Slow down,,  Consumerism,  Materialism

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Simplify your life by eliminating what is unnecessary

• When we apply simplicity to our own lives, when we strip away the unnecessary, the extraneous from ourselves, we become more truly who we are, and as such we reveal the potential we were born to express. Jennifer Kavanagh
• 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. Elbert Hubbard
• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
• Simplicity means knowing what can’t be left out. Paul von Ringelheim
• Simplicity is marked by the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it. Joshua Becker
• Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. Leo Babauta
• One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. Bruce Lee
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• We make progress by eliminating things, by removing the superfluous. Steve Jobs
• It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. Bruce Lee
• Dump what is unimportant,  Put first things first

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Simplify your life by learning to let go …

• The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. Steve Maraboli
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… letting go of what’s not important and elevating what is …

• Simplifying is not necessarily about getting rid of everything we’ve worked so hard for… It’s about deciding what’s important to us, and gracefully letting go of the things that aren’t. Elaine St. James
• Simplicity is marked by the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it. Joshua Becker
• Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. Leo Babauta
• 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
• The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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… letting go of needless wants and embracing more frugal living

• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Edwin Way Teale
• Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it’s the you inside that counts. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Being frugal allows you to appreciate the simple things in life. John Sachem
• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. Vernon Howard
• Big house, big car, big breasts, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle. Santosh Kalwar
• How many things are there which I do not want. Socrates
• I don’t need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. Linda McCartney
• We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. Donald Horban
• Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet it is one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. 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. Elise Boulding
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Simplify your life by asking yourself what you can stop doing

• To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Here’s how it works. Ask yourself, ‘Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t get into again if I were starting over today?’ Brian Tracy
• Continually ask yourself whether there is anything you should do more of or less of, start doing, or stop doing altogether? These are questions you should ask and answer every day. They are important keys to simplification. Brian Tracy
• Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’ Marcus Aurelius

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Achieve a simpler life by weighing yourself down with less distractions and possessions

• Simplicity involves unburdening your life and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high-quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual. Linda Breen Pierce
• Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. Robert Brault
• A simplified life is light, easy, and free. It is a life that has thoughtfully and intentionally removed many of the things that weigh us down. Joshua Becker
• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. Charles Dudley Warner
• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. Peace Pilgrim

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Simplify your life by uncluttering it

• Out of clutter find simplicity. Albert Einstein
• Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. D.H. Mondfleur
• Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A simple home is calming. Leo Babauta
• As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul. Wayne Dyer
• When in doubt: breathe, drink water, clear clutter.   Karen Kramer
• Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. Denise Linn
• Clutter is stuck energy. The word “clutter” derives from the Middle English word “clotter,” which means to coagulate – and that’s about as stuck as you can get. Karen Kingston
• Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
• Clutter is a physical manifestation of fear that cripples our ability to grow. G. Chissell
• If you look at your entire house as one unit of junk, you’ll never do anything because the job is too overwhelming. Take it one drawer at a time.  Janet Luhrs
• Anyone who has ever cleaned out a closet knows how liberating it is. You feel lighter, your mind feels clearer.  Cecile Andrews
• The next time you decide to unclutter your life and clean up your space, start with the things that are truly useless: Like regrets, shame, and anger.  Sandra Kring
• As the house is cleaned, so the mind can be cleaned. As you enjoy a clean house, you will enjoy a clean and uncluttered mind. Remez Sasson
• Get rid of one thing a day for 30 days. We have so much clutter surrounding us at any given moment and we’ve become so accustomed to it that we no longer notice how it affects us.  If you start cleaning up some of this external clutter, a lot of internal clutter will disappear as well.  Choose one needless item each and every day and get rid of it.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Clean out a different drawer in your house every week. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Simplify your life by creating more space for peace and solitude

• To those who complain of the complexity of modern life, Henry David Thoreau might reply, “If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.” Stewart Udall
• 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
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Simplify your life by finding greater balance

• The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence. Duane Elgin
• We need to find the “middle way” in our own lives. It is the art of finding balance.  Reflecting upon our lives, we soon discover what serves us well–nurturing calmness, ease, and simplicity.  We also discover what it is that leads to entanglement, confusion, distress, and anxiety.  Wisdom is being able to discern the difference, then knowing what we need to nurture and what we need to learn to let go.  Christina Feldman
• Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much. Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Simplify your life by living in the simplicity of the here and now

• A spiritual practice draws you into the simplicity of the moment. There is nothing like regular practice to bring you into the now, and to keep you from getting lost in the past or mired in fears of the future. Maggie Lyon
• To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. Donald Altman
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Simplify your life by applying limitations

• If there’s any area of your life that is overwhelming you, and that you’d like to simplify, apply limitations. Leo Babauta
• Out of limitations, new forms emerge. Georges Braque
• By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Leo Babauta
• Our problem is living without limits. It’s like going shopping without spending limits—you tend to go overboard and end up with a bunch of stuff you don’t need or really want much. But if you have a budget (say one hundred dollars), you’ll choose only the things that matter, and you’ll end up with much less junk.  Leo Babauta
• For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable. Aristotle
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Simplify your life by letting go of any urge to complicate things

• Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. Elaine St. James
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
• Year by year the complexities of this world grow more bewildering, and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in joyful simplicities.
• The simpler the deeper. We have a way of making things too complicated. Shawn McNiff
• To simplify complications is the first essential of success. George Earle Buckle
• People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. Thor-Heyerdahl

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Simplify your life by making the complicated simple

• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W.Ceram
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingu
• An 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. Hoshang N. Akhtar
• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. Lester Levenson
• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Edward de Bono
• If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. Albert Einstein
• One should use common words to say uncommon things. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Complexity is easy, simplicity requires mastery. Peter Cajander

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Simplify your life by reducing problems to their simplest possible terms and keeping the solutions simple

• There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity. Simplicity, I mean, in the sense of reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem that besets us. Whenever I have met a business proposition which, after taking thought, I could not reduce to simplicity, I have left it alone. Henri Deterding
• Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. Mark Twain
• With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge. Tracey Smith
• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Steve Jobs
• Think simple as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright
• When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein
• The simplest solution is almost always the best solution. Occam’s Law
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Simplify your life by keeping your thinking simple

• The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding
• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
• If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea. David Belasco
• If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. Dennis Roth
• That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean, to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs
• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. Lao Tzu
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Simplify your life by keeping your communication simple …

• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Kahlil Gibran
• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to ‘lay it on’ in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression. Noah Lukeman
• Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. William Zinsser
• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac
• When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it’s clear proof that it should be rejected. Luc De Clapiers
• Great people, like nature, use simple language. Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
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… including using less words

• It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
• Good things, when short, are twice as good. Baltasar Gracián
• It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books – what other men do not say in whole books. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Never use two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson
• Simplicity uses little words. It practices the wisdom of Lincoln, who said, “make it so simple a child will understand; then no one will misunderstand.”  Wilferd A. Peterson
• If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. Dennis Roth
• If you can’t explain something in a few words, try fewer. Robert Brault
• That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. Charles Caleb Colton
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Simplify your life by finding richness in less …

• You can’t force simplicity, but you can invite it in by finding as much richness as possible in the few things at hand. Simplicity doesn’t mean meagreness but rather a certain kind of richness, the fullness that appears when we stop stuffing the world with things. Thomas Moore

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… realising that the simplest moments are the richest

• In the end, life’s simplest moments turn out to be life’s richest ones. Robin Sharma

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Simplify your life by finding joy in the simple things …

• The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Teach us to delight in simple things. Rudyard Kipling
• I’m just a simple guy, I live from day to day. A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away.   Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Bonham  (Led Zeppelin)
• Year by year the complexities of this world grow more bewildering, and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in joyful simplicities. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.  Oscar Wilde
• Joy (quotes),  Savouring,   Enjoyment

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… simple things such as these …

• 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
• The simplicity of listening to a favorite CD, the calmness of soaking in a hot bath, the ease of resting on a bench at the edge of a garden: these personal spaces feed our souls, allowing us to restore our spirits and enjoy our lives. Chris Casson Madden
• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. Herbert Hoover
• It’s simple things, like a glowing sunset, the sound of a running stream or the fresh smell in a meadow that cause us to pause and marvel at the wonder of life, to contemplate its meaning and significance. Who can hold an autumn leaf in their hand, or sift the warm white sand on the beach, and not wonder at the Creator of it all? Wendy Moore

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The simplest things in life are the most real and worthwhile

• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things in life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
• The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach

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The simplest things in life are the most wondrous and extraordinary

• Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder. John McLeod
• It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. Paulo Coelho
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The simplest things in life bring the greatest happiness

• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions –  that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.  Bob Hope
• Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. Robert Louis Stevenson
• How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.  Nikos Kazantzakis
• The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. Edgar A. Collard
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