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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
-Chinese Proverb
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
-Proverb
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I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ......
Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things
-Edward Abbey
Confessions of a Barbarian
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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
-Philip James Bailey
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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
-Honore de Balzac
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The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.
-Jean Baudrillard
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I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
-Tony Bennett
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
-George Earle Buckle
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
-Warren Buffett
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The most complex things are the simplest.
-Agni Celeste
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
-Luc De Clapiers
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Complexity creates a maze between you and success. Simplicity ensures a clear line of sight.
-Lee J. Colan
Power Exchange
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
-Robert Collier
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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
-James Fenimore Cooper
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Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless. It took forever for summer to come. When it finally did, by late-July, summer seemed interminable.
Basic arithmetic reveals that for a two-year old, the next year will represent 33% of her life thus far, whereas for a 19-year old, the next year represents 5%, and for a 39 year-old, only 2.5%...
More than anything else, the young child's perceptions influence how she experiences life. She has few markers that delineate the passage of time. On the first of each month, she pays no rent or mortgage. She has no job, and does not commute. She is likely to be regularly clothed, bathed, and cared for. The child arises each day with no agenda, no to do list. She experiences hunger, irritation, and sleepiness. She has some favorite activities -- her major activity is play. Each day brings new wonders... Meanwhile, she has no report to finish, no checkbook to balance, no across-town meetings. She does not even wear a watch.
Your life is a bit more complicated, and is related increasingly to how society has become more complex. Independent of who you are or what you do for a living, chances are that you're busy, perhaps extremely busy, and are a part of our active, generally hard-working population.
If you continually feel pressured, don't take it personally. You are experiencing the same dilemma as millions of other people, and you are part of the most time-pressed society of over-information and communication in history
http://www.breathingspace.com/
-Jeff Davidson
edited passage from Breathing Space: Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society
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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
-Eugene Delacroix
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
-Rene Descartes
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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
-Philippe Nericault Destouches
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Books about Simplicity
