"Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus."
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"If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy."
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"Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do."
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"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation."
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"At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it."
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"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."
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"Simply the thing that I am shall make me live."
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"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life."
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"The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things."
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"He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible."
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"Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
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"Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity."
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"The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts."
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"For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold."
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"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed."
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"He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways."
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"If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way."
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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"We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without."
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"Let your capital be simplicity and contentment."
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