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“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”
— Linji
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”
— Erich Fromm
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“A truly great person is one who is simple natural and unpretentious”
— Ikeda Daisaku
“Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all and it comes simply”
— Meister Eckhart
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
— Maya Angelou
“If you cant explain it simply you dont understand it well enough”
— Albert Einstein
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Less is only more where more is no good and simplicity knows the difference”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”
— Warren Buffett
“The sage does not hoard the more he gives to others the more he has for himself through simplicity”
— Lao Tzu
“There is more to life than increasing its speed and simplicity reveals what that more is”
— Gandhi
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself”
— Henry Miller
“What is the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary”
— Gary Keller
“The simplicity on the other side of complexity is worth more than the simplicity before it”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The real core of my work is the way light enters a space”
— Peter Zumthor
“When you love someone the best thing you can offer is your presence and that offering is beautifully simple”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness”
— Zhuangzi
“When you put your house in order you put your affairs and your past in order too and that process is simple”
— Marie Kondo
“Before you leave the house look in the mirror and take one thing off simplicity is the final touch”
— Coco Chanel
“Have you eaten your rice porridge Then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“Smile breathe and go slowly”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance”
— Bruce Lee
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”
— William of Ockham
“Minimalism is a tool to get rid of excess in favor of what matters”
— Fumio Sasaki
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”
— Thomas Merton
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
— Auguste Rodin
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
“When we start to feel the shortage of resources simplicity becomes our greatest teacher”
— D.T. Suzuki
“Our life is frittered away by detail so simplify”
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”
— Lope de Vega
“Good design is as little design as possible”
— Dieter Rams
“I know that I know nothing and in that simple admission lies the beginning of wisdom”
— Socrates
“Most humans are never fully present in the now because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important simplicity says otherwise”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”
— Alan Watts
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”
— Edwin Way Teale
“The essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions about life”
— Arne Naess
“To attain knowledge add things every day to attain wisdom remove things every day”
— Laozi
“The value of art is in the observer when you find truth you find beauty”
— Agnes Martin
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”
— Simone Weil
“Complexity is your enemy any fool can make something complicated it takes a genius to make something simple”
— Richard Branson
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity goodness and truth”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become”
“Our life is frittered away by detail simplify simplify”
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”
— Matsuo Basho
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak”
— Hans Hofmann
“In the end these things matter most how well did you love how fully did you live how deeply did you let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“Out of clutter find simplicity from discord find harmony in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
“Less is more in art in life and in the pursuit of meaning”
— Robert Browning
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness and that appreciation is simple”
— Dalai Lama
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water After enlightenment chop wood carry water”
— Zen Proverb
“If you do not prioritize your life someone else will”
— Greg McKeown
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“Owning less is better than organizing more because simplicity beats complexity every time”
— Joshua Becker
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
— Huang Po
“Do nothing which is of no use”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Everyday mind is the way”
— Nansen
“I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”
“Live each present moment completely and the future will take care of itself enjoy life simply”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee and revery”
— Emily Dickinson
“Small is beautiful and simple is sustainable”
— E.F. Schumacher
“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity and the height of simplicity is natural action”
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts when we keep things simple enough to see the whole”
— Aristotle
“Everybody is talented original and has something important to say”
— Brenda Ueland
“A beautiful thing is never perfect it is simply itself in its natural simplicity”
— Publilius Syrus
“Open your arms to change but dont let go of your values keep your life simple by holding what matters”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.”
— Unknown
“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing more to remove and that is pure simplicity”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and that is the power of simplicity”
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it simplicity reclaims that wasted time”
— Seneca
“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”
“If it is not a clear yes then it is a clear no”
— Derek Sivers
“Minimalism is just a tool to rid yourself of unnecessary things so that you can focus on what matters”
“I do the same thing over and over improving bit by bit”
— Jiro Ono
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees”
— Pablo Neruda
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance”
“The art of living is more like navigation than warfare for what is important is to understand the winds and ride the waves simply”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies and small is simple”
— Mother Teresa
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few”
— Pythagoras
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”
— Carl Jung
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
— Epictetus
“Love people and use things because the opposite never works and simplicity makes this clear”
— Joshua Fields Millburn
“God is in the details”
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“The miracle is not to walk on water but to walk on the green earth in the present moment simply and with awareness”
“I would have written a shorter letter but I did not have the time because brevity requires simplicity”
— Blaise Pascal
“We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness but happiness is found in simplicity not in escape”
— Leo Babauta
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”
“When you reach the top of the mountain keep climbing”
“Stillness is the key to all good things in life”
— Ryan Holiday
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
“Simplicity patience compassion these three are your greatest treasures”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed it is a process of simplification”
— Elbert Hubbard
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Truly happy memories always live on shining more and more beautifully in the heart even as time passes”
— Banana Yoshimoto
“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit developed through simple consistent practice”
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary”
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”
— Wendell Berry
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”
— William Morris
“The way of the essentialist is the path of being true to yourself and your highest contribution keeping life simple and focused”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”
— Epicurus
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
— Papa Ramadas
“For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity I would not give a fig but for the simplicity that lies on the other side I would give my life”
“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.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity and simplicity is the clearest path to service”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”
— Rachel Carson
“Super Normal is the result of a long tradition of evolutionary advancement in the shape of everyday things”
— Jasper Morrison
“We think that the more we have the happier we will be but we learn that the opposite is often true”
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper”
— Alvar Aalto
“Knowing how to simplify is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent it takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction”
“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Success is not the key to happiness happiness is the key to success”
— Albert Schweitzer
“A book is a mirror if an ass peers into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“To be great be whole exclude nothing”
— Fernando Pessoa
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks”
— John Muir
“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction”
— John Maeda
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.”
“Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space I consider sculpture”
— Isamu Noguchi
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts and that beauty is found in simplicity”
“You are therefore I am”
— Satish Kumar
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Simple can be harder than complex you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple”
— Steve Jobs
“Simplicity is the glory of expression”
— Walt Whitman
“Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler”
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated”
— Confucius
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself”
“The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful”
“It is not a daily increase but a daily decrease hack away the unessential”
“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living”
— Charlotte Perriand
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
— Edith Wharton
“The spiritual life is not about acquiring it is about letting go”
“The things you own end up owning you simplicity breaks that chain of ownership”
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
“A calm mind a fit body and a house full of love cannot be bought they must be earned”
— Naval Ravikant
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton
“The duty of delight is to find beauty and simplicity in everyday things”
— Dorothy Day
“The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and keeping them simple”
“You can observe a lot by watching”
— Yogi Berra
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty I think only how to solve the problem”
— Buckminster Fuller
“The best is the enemy of the good”
— Voltaire
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives”
— Annie Dillard
“Beauty is not in the face beauty is a light in the heart”
— Khalil Gibran
“True beauty is born of the imperfect”
— Soetsu Yanagi
“The rain has stopped the clouds have drifted away and the weather is clear again”
— Ryokan
“There is a voice that doesnt use words listen to it for it speaks in simplicity”
— Rumi
“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty”
— Kenko Yoshida
“I apologize for such a long letter I did not have time to write a short one”
— Mark Twain
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
— Lin Yutang
“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am and that realization is utterly simple”
“The earth has enough for everyones need but not for everyones greed”
— Vandana Shiva
“There are no uninteresting things only uninterested people”
— G.K. Chesterton
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“Creativity is subtraction”
— Austin Kleon
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”
“A life of simplicity is a life of truth and a life of truth needs no defense”
“The more you know the less you need”
— Yvon Chouinard
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has through simplicity”
“Beauty speaks like an oracle and ever since man has heeded its message in many ways”
— Luis Barragan
“Emptiness is not nothingness it is a richness of potential”
— Kenya Hara
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world”
— E.B. White
“Design is not just what it looks like design is how it works and the best designs work simply”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished through simplicity”
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
— Plato
“The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause and of obstinacy in a bad one”
— Laurence Sterne
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design and in life simplicity cures it”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart”
— Helen Keller
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
— Hermann Hesse
“In life there are things that make your heart beat faster in delight”
— Sei Shonagon
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life”
“Less but better is the essence of good design and good living”
“Absorb what is useful discard what is not add what is uniquely your own”
“The greatest sophistication is found in the simplest things”
“The soul of a tree lives on in my furniture”
— George Nakashima
“Receive without conceit release without struggle keep things simple”
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool simplicity reveals the difference”
“Less but better”
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts mind there are few”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Do small things with great love and keep your intentions simple and pure”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“The secret of happiness you see is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“Just this is it”
— Dongshan
“Complicating is easy simplifying is difficult”
— Bruno Munari
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you do not”
“In my designs I try to achieve simplicity by exploiting natural light and the beauty of materials”
— Tadao Ando
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
— Haruki Murakami
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves slowly and simply”
“Before we can talk about simplicity we must understand complexity”
— Konosuke Matsushita
“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great”
— Willa Cather
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“The mind should be nowhere in particular let it fill the whole body”
— Takuan Soho
“The world is vast and wide why do you put on your robes at the sound of a bell”
— Yunmen
“Design is so simple that is why it is so complicated”
— Paul Rand
“Simplicity boils down to two steps identify the essential and eliminate the rest”
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here”
— Italo Calvino
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
— Kobayashi Issa
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin carbohydrates and a monthly salary”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”
“Live simply so that others may simply live”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“In nature nothing exists alone and this interconnection is understood best through simple observation”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant about our own simplicity”
— Pema Chodron
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done it is about how to get the right things done”
“Walking and walking the green mountains never end”
— Santoka Taneda
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“The height of sophistication is simplicity”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“Life is simple it is just not easy but simplicity makes even the hard parts bearable”
— William Wordsworth
“Having less makes you happier this is one of the simplest and most profound truths of human experience”
“Simplicity is the seal of truth.”
— Herman Boerhaave
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop simply and without regret”
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming not for the person we were in the past”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Kahlil Gibran
“As you start to walk on the way the way appears and the way is always simple”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Simplify simplify simplify”
— Thoreau
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”
— Hafiz
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“Less is only more where more is no good”
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the simplest and greatest accomplishment”
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide keep it that simple”
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“Less is more”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“Unborn Buddha mind is the most simple and direct truth”
— Bankei
“The living moment is everything”
— D.H. Lawrence
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”
— Ikkyu
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”
— Dogen Zenji
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
— Julius Charles Hare
“Design dissolving in behavior is the most supreme form of design”
— Naoto Fukasawa
“Complexity is your enemy and any fool can make something complicated”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength”
— Saint Francis de Sales
“True beauty is not made it is born naturally”
— Sori Yanagi
“In limitations he first shows himself the master and the law can only give us freedom through simplicity”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple”
— C.W. Ceram
“If the only prayer you say in your entire life is thank you that will suffice because simplicity is enough”
“The simplest things are often the truest.”
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Nature is not a place to visit it is home”
— Gary Snyder
“The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness”
— Massimo Vignelli
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”
“Find beauty in imperfection and accept the natural cycle of growth and decay”
— Wabi Sabi Philosophy
“Find the intersection of what you love what you are good at what the world needs and what you can be paid for”
— Ikigai Philosophy
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple that is creativity”
— Charles Mingus
“Every day is a good day”
— Ummon
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it”
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does and keeps his path simple”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self”
— Aldous Huxley
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Simple can be harder than complex”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone”
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones simply one at a time”
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor simplicity cures that poverty”
“If it isnt a clear yes then it should be a clear no and that clarity is the gift of simplicity”
“I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.”
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers”
— Josef Albers
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you dont”
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