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“My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.”

Author:Jenna Elfman

“I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.”

Feelings Body Government Principles Kings Republican Prepared Simplicity Mortals Consent Emperor Demise Systems Of Government

Book:Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”

Ideas Use Age Term Simple Class Virtue Grace Stage Ignorance Habit Civilization Simplicity Vices No Idea Peasants Coarse Rural Life

Book:Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.

Source: Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.

“The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.”

Care Effort Steps Letting Go Simplicity

Author:Mooji

“Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.”

Humans Self Joy Lying Race Virtue Divine Simplicity Vices Indifference Human Race Self Respect

Book:The Meditations

Source: The Meditations

“All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.”

Self Struggle Simplicity True Self Relaxed

Book:You Are That

Source: You Are That

“The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.”

Mind Yoga Aim Simplicity Confusion Primaries Distress

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.”

Soul Spiritual Easy Quality Honesty Humility Pure Foundation Simplicity Vanity Generosity Spiritual Life

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”

Doe Two Lines Beats Distance Simplicity Objectives Straight Lines Detours

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.”

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.”

Ideas Simple Simplicity International Missions Strikes Buddy Magnitude Simple Ideas Best Buddies

Author:Tom Brady

“Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.”

People Persons Quality Direct Foundation Simplicity Obvious Access Firm Climbing Traits Alluring Firm Foundation

Author:Wojciech Kurtyka

“Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”

Sides Principles Simplicity Complexity Far Side

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.”

“Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.”

Littles Challenges Simple Impossible Simplicity Boring Routine

Author:Kathleen Robertson

“And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.”

Seems Simplicity

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.”

Lasts Simple Television Simplicity Formulas

Author:Dick Clark

“Don't make the process harder than it is.”

Process Harder Simplicity

Author:Jack Welch

“Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. A lot of people told me that leaving L.A. and moving to Volcano (district of the Big Island) would ruin my career, but that's my kuleana, my business.”

People Giving Character Bigs Moving Careers Leaving Simplicity Ruins Islands Sensitivity Volcanoes

Author:Jason Scott Lee

“Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.”

Humans Has Beens Beautiful Human Beings Simplicity Concentration Sober Elegance Posture Superfluous Discarded Simplicity And Elegance

Author:Paulo Coelho

“You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.”

Knows Want Needs Moments Happens Order Found Letting Go Okay Simplicity Resistance Attachment Persist Want Something Very True

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.”

Real Sound Answers Darkness Simplicity Shattering Disarming Chuckles

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity”

Writing Life Is Secret Painting Profound Simplicity Profound Truth

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.”

Goal Practice Highest Overcoming Difficulty Simplicity Pianist

Author:Frederic Chopin

“'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is something more. Inspired by the Father, each procession of the Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us by lifting us up. It returns us back to the oneness and deifying simplicity of the Father who gathers us in. For, as the sacred Word says, 'from Him and to Him are all things' (Rom. 11:36).”

Light Christian Father Perfect Return All Things Sacred Inspired Very Good Simplicity Spread Oneness Orthodox Lifting Endowment Procession

Author:Pope Dionysius

“When the tribal groups of december trade Seated in the figure of crocodile And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made Real. All... For more than one reason they smile. These codes are writ in secret, feeling fine To keep what's private to my self since we All must face our maker in our own ryhme And reasons for being ( from regrets) free So let the memory of your glory Be the tenderness heartfelt love starkly In the sky of my mind vast and pretty Evermore glittering simplicity Where in the truth of country grows sober And sunshines through fog to radiate wonder”

“The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and...its appeal to men of all lands and times.”

Men Literature Religious Land Messages Bible Direct Simplicity Appeals Towers

Author:William F. Albright

“If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.”

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”

Inspirational Mind Believe Body Life Is I Believe Simple Simplicity Manners Publicity Simple Life Simple Living Living A Simple Life Unassuming Life Is Simple

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“God always takes the simplest way.”

Way Love Life Inspirational God Science Simplicity Simplest

Author:Albert Einstein

“Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.”

Mind Heart Lying Compassion Psychology Quiet Simplicity Buddhist Sophistication

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?”

Light Air Highest Simplicity Breathe Purity

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Best things in life aren't things.”

“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”

Love Life Inspirational May Ideas God Science Language Simple Theory Fundamentals Simplicity Mathematical Simple Ideas

Book:Evolution of Physics

Source: Evolution of Physics

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

People Love Inspirational Work Results Activity Simplicity Woods Minimalism Disrespectful Chopping Less Is More Chopping Wood

Author:Albert Einstein

“Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.”

Way Life Is Our Lives Modern Middle Keys Balance Activity Findings Tasks Simplicity Strikes Modern Life Simplify Preoccupation Middle Way

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”

Facts Science Numbers Education Logic Aim Simplicity Logical Smallest Hypothesis Axioms Deductions Empirical Evidence

Author:Albert Einstein

“The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.”

Life Is Modern Keys Balance Findings Simplicity Modern Life Middle Way

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons”

Secret Lessons All Things Simplicity Valuable Wilderness Valuable Lessons

Book:Reflections from the North Country

Source: Reflections from the North Country

“All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!”

People Ifs World Should Believe Use Jesus Christ Can Do Sin Simple Ought Jesus Christ Simplicity Exposed Preaching Sermons

Book:The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

“Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.”

Children Helping Light Today Joy Turns Asks Behinds Lord Mystery Humility Seasons Simplicity Celebration Stable Superficial Glitter Bright Lights Bethlehem True Joy Mystery Of God

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.”

Focus Simplicity Confusion Complexity

Author:Edward de Bono

“Simplicity is complexity resolved”

Simplicity Complexity

Author:Constantin Brancusi

“The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.”

Opportunity Leader Difficulty Harmony Simplicity Clutter Discord

Author:Albert Einstein

“I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.”

People Want Enjoy Natural Simplicity

Author:Chris Blackwell

“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”

Humans Wisdom Literature Simple Compassion Simplicity Pity Helpful Self Pity Forsake Draught

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

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