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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci 
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I love those who can smile in trouble,
who can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been
and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Less is more.
- Pierre Seghir
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
The secret to a joyful life is Simplicity -
saying NO to the latest this and the most glamorous that -
saying NO to chasing an overly-demanding career -
saying NO to the stressful demands upon your time and energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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