#simplicity

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

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

"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."

"Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments."

"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."

"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple."

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

"The love and hope that we are born with is what keeps us relentlessly moving toward joy. We get the most happiness from the simplicity of being devoid of wants and needs."

"People who pride themselves on their "complexity"and deride others for being "simplistic"should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."

"Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you."

"I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself."

"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

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

"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life."

"Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Living simply makes loving simple."

"The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day"