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Simplicity is the quality of being plain or uncomplicated

• Simplicity: The quality or condition of being plain or uncomplicated in form or design. Oxford Dictionary
• Simplicity: The state or quality of being plain or not fancy or complicated. Merriam Webster
• Simplicity: Something that is simple or ordinary but enjoyable. Merriam Webster
• Simplicity: Freedom from complexity, intricacy, or division into parts.  Dictionary.com
• Clarity,  Simple living,  Elegance,  Focus,  Brevity,  Minimalism,  Complexity,  Confusion

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Simplicity is the quality of being easy to understand

• Simplicity: The quality or condition of being easy to understand or do.  Oxford Dictionary
• Simplicity: The quality of being easy to understand or use. Merriam Webster
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Simplicity is the essence of greatness

• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
• Simplicity is the nature of great souls. Papa Ramadas
• Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Simplicity is the mark of greatness. “To be simple is to be great,” wrote Emerson.  Only little people pretend; big people are genuine and sincere.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal
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Simplicity is the essence of goodness

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. Seneca
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Simplicity is the essence of beauty and truth

• Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Thomas Aquinas
• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Mahlon Hoagland
• The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach
• The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men.   Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
• Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things. Winna Efendi
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato
• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.  William Shenstone
• Nothing is true, but that which is simple.  Johann Wolfgang
• Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. Vauvenargues
• The great seal of truth is simplicity.  Herman Boerhaave
• Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
• People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. Thomas Sowell
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Simplicity is the essence of elegance

• Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. Jon Franklin
• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. Coco Chanel
• I will only say now that elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension. Christian Dior
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato
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Simplicity is the crowning achievement of art

• 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
• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

• We must strive to reach the simplicity that lies beyond sophistication. John Gardner
• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

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Simplicity is a key to success

• To simplify complications is the first essential of success. George Earle Buckle
• 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. Henri Deterding

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Simplicity is the key to excellence and brilliance

• Simplicity is the key to brilliance. Bruce Lee
• In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. Amelia Barr
• Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple. Natalie Babbitt
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Simplicity brings happiness

• 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
• 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
• Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. Karen Maezen Miller
• Simplicity makes me happy.  Alicia Keys
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Simplicity brings wisdom

• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts, wisdom lies in their simplification.  Martin H Fischer
• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Kahlil Gibran
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Simplicity and the act of simplifying aids understanding

• The very act of simplifying something aids our understanding of it
• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.  Albert Einstein
• In general, I feel if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself. John Rogers Searle
• Complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled ‘complex,’ that’s just a roundabout way of saying you’re not observant enough to understand it.   Lee Martinez
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Wisdom lies more in the simplification of knowledge than its accumulation

• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
• To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao- Tzu
• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.   Martin H. Fischer
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Simplicity is about eliminating the unnecessary and adding the meaningful

• 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
• Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. John Maeda
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Simplicity is about doing 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

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Simplicity is about less being more

• Less is more. Mies van der Rohe
• Have less. Do less. Be more. Aboodi Shaby

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Simplicity is about expressing more with less

• What’s really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. William Albert Allard

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Simplicity is about bringing order to complexity

• True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation — it’s about bringing order to complexity. Jony Ive
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Simplicity is not about poverty or want

• Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away. Paul Jacques Grillo
• 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
• If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. Annie Dillard Creek
• 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
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Simplicity is not the goal but a by-product

• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. Paul Rand
• You were trying to be simple for the sake of being simple. I wonder if true simplicity is ever anything but a by- product.  If we aim directly for it, it eludes us; but if we are on fire with some great interest that absorbs our lives to the uttermost, we forget ourselves into simplicity. Everything falls into simple lines around us, like a worn garment. David Grayson

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Simplicity is not about barrenness or emptiness

• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. Felix Adler
• The goal of life: simple but not empty. Terri Guillemets
• 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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At its heart, life is simple, not complex

• 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 Rubin
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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
• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. Norman Vincent Peale

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Out of complication, clutter and complexity, dig deep for simplicity …

• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities arise. Winston Churchill
• Out of clutter find simplicity. Albert Einstein
• To simplify complications is the first essential of success. George Earle Buckle
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingu
• Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. Steve Jobs
• I believe the art of living consists not so much in complicating simple things as in simplifying things that are not. François Hertel
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… the beautiful simplicity that lies beyond complexity

• I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.  Alan Perlis
• 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
• We must strive to reach the simplicity that lies beyond sophistication. John Gardner
• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities arise. Winston Churchill
• The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.  Douglas Horton

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Avoid the urge to complicate

• Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. Elaine St. James
• Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe. Donald Curtis

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Simplicity is far more precious and useful than complexity

• I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity. Ben Huh
• 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

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Complexity often means we don’t truly understand something yet

• Complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled ‘complex,’ that’s just a roundabout way of saying you’re not observant enough to understand it.   Lee Martinez
• When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it’s clear proof that it should be rejected. Luc De Clapiers
• If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. Albert Einstein

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Simplify complexity but don’t oversimplify for that leads to simplistic ideas and solutions

• Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. Edward De Bono
• Make things as simple as possible but no simpler. Albert Einstein
• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
• But it is also important to remember not try to over-simplify complex matters. Peter Bevelin
• I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Complexity is easy while simplicity requires mastery …

• Complexity is easy, simplicity requires mastery. Peter Cajander
• 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
• Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity’s the real challenge. Robert James Waller
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… and persistence and hard work …

• It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple. Steve Jobs
• Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean, to make it simple. Steve Jobs
• Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. Steve Jobs
• 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
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… and creativity …

• Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Christopher Zeema
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingu
• Creativity defeats complication with simplicity, overcomes fear with empowerment, and discovers order by achieving balance. Michael Rawls

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… and a fair share of genius

• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand
• 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
• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W.Ceram
• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? T. A. Hoffmann
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Seek simplicity but don’t immediately trust it when you find it

• Seek simplicity but distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead
• The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead
• For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken
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… for sometimes it is just wishful thinking …

• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Paul Anderson
• Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. Jim Horning
• Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong. L. Mencken
• Part of the problem today is that we have a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems. Syracuse Herald
• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure, and never simple.  Oscar Wilde
• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. David Levithan

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… and can stand in the way of deeper exploration

• As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.  Laura Nyro
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Keep your thinking simple

• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
• 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
• 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
• If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. Albert Einstein
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The greatest ideas are the simplest

• The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding
• Simplicity discovers great ideas; a swinging cathedral lamp inspired the pendulum, watching a tea kettle led to the steam engine, and a falling apple revealed the law of gravitation. Wilferd A. Peterson
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Express things simply, especially in your writing …

• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Kahlil Gibran
• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac
• 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
• People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.  Ruskin Bond
• Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. William Zinsser
• One should use common words to say uncommon things. Arthur Schopenhauer
• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. Aristotle
• Great people, like nature, use simple language. Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
• 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
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… using simple words

• A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. Winston Churchill
• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac
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If you can’t explain it, you probably don’t understand it well enough yet

• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
• Complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled ‘complex,’ that’s just a roundabout way of saying you’re not observant enough to understand it.   Lee Martinez
• 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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Reduce problems to their simplest possible terms

• 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
• Simplicity avoids the superficial, penetrates the complex, goes to the heart of the problem and pinpoints key factors. Wilferd A. Peterson
• 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. Henry David Thoreau
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When solving problems, the simplest solutions are always the best

• 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
• When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein
• The simplest solution is almost always the best solution. Occam’s Law
• Simplicity solves problems. Listen to the testimony of Charles Kettering, a genius of modern research:  “The problem when solved will be simple.”  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies. Derek Landy
• ..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. Muhammad Yunus

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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
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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 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 every one, 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
• Let us learn to live simply, so that others may simply live. Mahatma Gandhi

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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 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 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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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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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
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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
• It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. Bruce Lee
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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
• 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
• I don’t need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. Linda McCartney
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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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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
• For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable. Aristotle
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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 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 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 meagernesss 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
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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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At the end of life, our questions are simple

• At the end of life, our questions are very simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well? Jack Kornfield

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Appreciate simplicity in nature

• Nature is pleased with simplicity. Isaac Newton
• Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. Emily Dickinson
• If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Appreciate simplicity in art

• What’s really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. William Albert Allard
• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato
• Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Thomas Aquinas
• As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. Albrecht Durer
• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. Philip James Bailey
• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.  Constantin Brancusi
• 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
• When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.  Jacob Lawrence
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Not everyone advocates simplicity

• I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. Norman Hartnell
• People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. Douglas Coupland
• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. Henry James

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The main purpose of science is simplicity

• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein
• But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand. Jody Lynn Nye
• The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. Edward Teller
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Simplicity is 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

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Simplicity and compassion are often talked about in the same breath

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu
• Compassion springs from a mind and heart deeply rooted in simplicity, integrity, and a profound understanding of the interconnected nature of all life. Christina Feldman
• Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.  Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.  Lao Tzu
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• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde
• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde
• Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity. Gregory Nunn
• For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken
• Expert: A person who knows enough to complicate simple matters.
• Less is a bore. Robert Venturi
• It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. Meyers Law
• A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
• Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. Oscar Wilde
• He was a simple man who died of complications.  Epitaph
• I have a simple philosophy; fill what’s empty, empty what’s full and scratch where it itches.  Abraham Lincoln
• Expert: a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
• Men are simple things; they can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.  Daniel Tosh
• My wife and I have a simple relationship. I rule the roost; she rules the rooster.
• The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. Bertrand Russell
• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Oscar Wilde
• The simple explanation always follows the complex solution. Lunsford’s Rule of Scientific Endeavor
• The universe is simple; it’s the explanation that’s complex. Woody Allen