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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Simplicity
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the
necessary may speak. ~Hans Homann
In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of
ordinary, everyday life. ~Plato
Live simply, so that others may simply live. ~Gandhi
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ~Charles Mingus
Bringing simplicity into our lives requires that we discover the ways in which
our consumption either supports or entangles our existence. ~Duane Elgin
Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. ~Lao Tzu
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll
have more time and tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this
necessary?’ ~Marcus Aurelius
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ~Norman
Vincent Peale
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their
simplicity and familiarity. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
~Winston Churchill
How many undervalue the power of simplicity. But it is the real key to the
heart. ~William Wordsworth
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were
the big things. ~Robert Brault
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
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom
rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. ~Riccardo Muti
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on
simplicity. ~Plato
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
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more,
seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I
can have more. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. ~Jacob
Lawrence
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why
attached to it; it blooms because it blooms, has no thought of itself, or desire
to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who
wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants
nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding. ~Andre
Compte-Sponville
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and
the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Way Tales
Above all,
keep it simple.
~Auguste Escoffier
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. Be
faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~Mother
Theresa
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there
probably can be no greater happiness than this. ~Kitaro Nishida
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience – to know
the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the
laughter, the tears – and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a
simple mind only when you know how to love. ~J. Krishnamurti
What is simplicity?
It is to live;
only to live
but live divinely.
~Omraam Mikhael Arivanhov
Simplicty is the living beauty. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance
of here and now. ~Donald Altman
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
Ten thousand flowers in spring
the moon in Autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by
unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
~Wu-men
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
~Lao Tzu
Simplicity is the flower that brings the intellect to its needs. ~Alan Cohen
Simplicity, simplicity!
How sweet is the purity of Thy Presence!
~The Mother
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man
expresses freedom through being ordinary. ~Adyashanti
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way that is outwardly
simple and inwardly rich. ~Duane Elgin
I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of
living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be. ~Joan Chittister
When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simply what
you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basically sit around
wondering what all the fuss is about. ~Adyashanti
Insomuch as you can be simple and humble, and you can want nothing more
than to know and serve God, you can rise to the heights of spiritual life.
~Clare Watts
Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we
need… I live more simply now, and with more peace. ~Richard Byrd
To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous
awareness–awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.
~Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
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. ~14th Dalai Lama
Nature is pleased with simplicity. ~Isaac Newton
The farther you go, the less you know. ~Lao Tzu
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
For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The simplest things are often the truest. ~Richard Bach
Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and
Purity in feeling. ~Thomas a Kempis
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing
her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.
On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are
over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the
danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.
~Edward Steichen
Life is beautiful in its simplicity. ~ Thomas Matthiessen
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
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. ~Paulo Coelho
Life is simple–thinking is complicated. ~Peter Cajander
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
Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways. ~Joseph Fort
Newton
Make room for yourself in your life by keeping it simple. ~Stephen C. Paul
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God
invents. ~Robert Browning
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
~Lao Tzu
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker,
more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain
openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. ~Francois Fenelon
Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is
serene. It is radiant. It is triumphant. ~Thomas R. Kelly
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there
probably can be no greater happiness than this. ~Kitarp Nishida
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life
he leads? ~Albert Camus
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections
upon itself. ~Francois Fenelon
In every ordinary moment, a profound depth and beauty awaits your
discovery. ~Eckhart Tolle
Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. ~Johann Bernoulli
In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become
very simple, very real. ~Eckhart Tolle
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 more simple we are, the more complete we become. ~August Rodin
Wisdom and compassion flow from simplicity and clarity; from having
nothing to prove and nothing to defend. ~Barry Magid