#simplicity

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Seek simplicity but distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#simplicity-in-life #inspirational

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

#gratitude #joy #simplicity #life

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it. No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you". ↗

— Richard O. Moore

#love #silence #simplicity #love