#implicit

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#life #self-awareness #simplicity #life

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#history #life #simplicity #life

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without. ↗

— Amy Dacyczyn

#voluntary-simplicity #money

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. ↗

— Amy Dacyczyn

#voluntary-simplicity #money

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't. We can't compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We're dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#facts #religions #simplicity #religion

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#religion #science #scientists #simplicity #religion

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#truth #simplicity

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cannot #change #changes #compass #constant

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#deceitful #ever #man #mistress #most

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ↗

— Sam Abell

#held #i #i see #moment #photography