R > R's Quotes

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

“Living simply makes loving simple.”
― bell hooks

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
― Isaac Newton

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".”
― Anthony de Mello

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]”
― Steve Jobs

“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to suffer agonies from everlasting pretense.”
― Seneca, Dialogues and Letters

“Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.”
― Confucius, The Analects