#implicit

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#simplicity #life

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

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There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#enough #journey #just #life #making

The great seal of truth is simplicity. ↗

— Herman Boerhaave

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The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Bork

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In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207) ↗

— Alain de Botton

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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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 for both the body and the mind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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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. (148) ↗

— Victoria Moran

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