#implicit

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#arts #aspect #closer #easy #easy way

Everything seems simpler from a distance. ↗

— Gail Tsukiyama

#life #people #simple #simplicity #life

In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn. ↗

— Bill Buford

#easy #learning #lifetime #simplicity #life

No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least. ↗

— Samina Ali

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#simplicity #writing #words

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies. ↗

— Derek Landy

#problems #simplicity #solutions #simplicity

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#simplicity #life

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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