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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice,
more drunkards than thirst,
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
- The Buddha
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I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
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The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
The simple life is everything Vogue isn't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simple child-like attitude would create
a less stressful and happier life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
Human subtlety will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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