Simplicity
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- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- A good plan is a simple plan.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
- All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- 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.
- Avoid the simple problems, because they become the big problems.Kevin HartSourced
- By trying to take in the idea of life as a whole we only give ourselves mental indigestion; a day at a time is as much as a man can healthily swallow.
- Collect moments. Not things.
- Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
- Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting men’s desires.
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Discern the vital few from the trivial many.
- Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Figure out what not to do, over and over again.
- Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
- He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
- He is the richest who is content with the least.
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
- How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
- I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.
- I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.Mary OliverCommonly attributed
- I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
- I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
- If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
- I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
- In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- In proportion as one simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
- It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and ease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately.John RuskinCommonly attributed
- It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
- It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
- It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Less clutter, more clarity. Fewer goals, deeper impact. This is the path to joy.
- Live simply so others may simply live.
- Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.
- Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
- My greatest skill has been to want little.
- My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
- Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.