#implicit

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#simple-living #simplicity #life

The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#simplicity #love

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#voluntarysimplicity #money

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#sophistication #ultimate

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#ignorance #ridiculous #sucking-up #simplicity

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#simplicity #truth #simplicity

One should use common words to say uncommon things ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#naivete #simplicity #writing #simplicity

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. ↗

— David Levithan

#truth #simplicity

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ↗