Simply Great Quotes About Simplicity and Minimalism
K.I.S.S. - "Keep it Simple and Smile" - has always been a favorite of mine and for me, when I remember to take that approach then less grief, and more success and happiness, comes into my life. Here we have assembled the best quotes we could find on simplicity, the simple life, minimalism, - the whole concept of less is more - for you to contemplate. Please share the ones you like best. We wish you a peaceful, relaxing, simply wonderful day!
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.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
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.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Keep things simple and practical so that an activity that fuels you doesn't become this massive, daunting obligation. Your self-care activity doesn't need to be yet another thing that lingers on your to-do list.
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Simplifiers ensure that simplicity is always a goal, a benchmark and a means to arrive at success, leaving us with an actionable lesson -- if you want to innovate, simplify is the new disrupt.
Simplicity is sometimes sexier in its naked honesty. But simplicity isn't simple. It demands great ingredients and on-point technique.
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.
There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything.
When you're at its bank you're only at its bank.
I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! 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, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live.
That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.
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That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
All the great things are simple.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
In order to be a good gatekeeper, you have to think of your house as sacred space, not storage space.
Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow -- that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
