#simple

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ↗

— Confucius

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

#firm #modest #near #simple #virtue

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision. ↗

— Scott Cook

#difficult #even #flavors #home #make

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#any #direct #never #requires #right

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#disaster #disasters #formula #never #relationship

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#adopt #american #child #easy #finding

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#being #between #certain #consonants #constructed

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#gratitude #simple-things #faith

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. ↗

— Dave Barry

#african-american #american men #giant #heads #like

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #big fan #customers #fan #i