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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."
"See it big, and keep it simple."
"Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change."
"If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues."
"What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing"
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
"How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed."
"A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom."
"You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing."
"It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings."
"Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways."
"All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems."
"I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid."
"Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated."
"The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn't done. If you can't see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past."
"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple."
"if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for."
"I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism."
"Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right."
