"dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."
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"Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive."
"The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little."
"I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world."
"I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious."
"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life."
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
"We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard."
"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage."