"Listen soberly: Just be 'I Am'; just stay here! ... There's nothing that can stop you from following this simple advice."
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"The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be."
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"Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity."
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"The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis."
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"But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there."
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"So you can get very remarkable investment results if you think more like a winning pari-mutuel player. Just think of it as a heavy odds against game full of craziness with an occasional mispriced something or other. And you're probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It's just that simple."
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"I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment."
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"I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering."
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"When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky."
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"You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive."
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"Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple."
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"The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society."
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"I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation."
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"The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child."
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"Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force."
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"The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'"
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"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
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"It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek."
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"I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
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"Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy."
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