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Quotes About Simplicity

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
~ Hannah More
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
~ Jonathan Swift
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
~ William of Ockham
Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows
~ Uesugi Kenshin
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
~ Sivananda Saraswati
Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.
~ Catherine Doherty
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.
~ Ellen Key
...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.
~ Jakob Nielsen
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
~ Sengcan
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
~ Gautama Buddha
There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.
~ Deepak Chopra
It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
~ Laozi
The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.
~ Zhang Zhao
I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.
~ George Harrison
Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.
~ Wayne Dyer
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
~ David Shi
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
~ Cass McCombs
Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
~ Henry David Thoreau