Top 72 Not Complicate Quotes
#1. Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!
Michael Moorcock
#2. I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.
Jose Saramago
#3. Someday, you're going to have to trust the people who love you. If you understand nothing else, understand this. People who love you--people like me--are actually here to help you through life, not complicate it.
Heidi Tankersley
#4. Simplify always - do not complicate.
Emile Coue
#5. I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.
Lou Doillon
#7. Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.
Michelle Richardson
#8. To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better."
"I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said.
Cinda Williams Chima
#9. ...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.
Eugenia Cheng
#10. I want to be with you. I've made it way more fucking complicated than it needs to be, and I want to un-complicate it. I've no right to ask it, but will you give me the chance to prove that I can be better than I've been?
R.K. Lilley
#11. We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
John Ortberg
#12. The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.
Murray Krieger
#13. Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.
Paul Rusesabagina
#14. I want fun now, life is here to enjoy, not to complicate and make difficult.
Marc Bolan
#15. Fuck Wren. No ... Damn her. Never mind her. All Wren did lately was complicate Cath's world.
Rainbow Rowell
#16. Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.
Sieg Pedde
#17. When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
Richard Marx
#18. Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.
Harold S. Kushner
#19. Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.
Joel Osteen
#20. My dad and Patricia viewed my decision to become a vegetarian largely in terms of the way it seemed to complicate their dinner menus.
Chris Bohjalian
#21. When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.
Dean Koontz
#22. Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.
Harry Vardon
#23. I would greatly prefer it if you didn't put a bullet into my brain; it would complicate my plans for life, most of which involve not being dead.
Seanan McGuire
#24. The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
Zhuangzi
#25. Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?
Robert Galbraith
#26. Humans don't trust anything-because that's their nature. Half of them have gut feelings they continually ignore. It's not their fault. Instinct rarely fits on the pages of a day planner, and even if it did, human beings would manage to complicate the hell out of it.
A.S. King
#27. The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.
Cecelia Ahern
#28. I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.
Michael Light
#29. I make the surprised O with my mouth, although I am not really that surprised. It was the kind of story that grownups tell children to complicate a thing when they could just tell you the thing itself, much faster.
Claire King
#30. The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
Criss Jami
#31. The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.
Max Euwe
#32. Real people complicate things. Real people die. Real people can be killed by other people.
Julie Cross
#33. In performing experiments, it is necessary ... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.
Antoine Lavoisier
#34. Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.
Charles R. Swindoll
#36. Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it.
Mark Helprin
#38. I don't want to make things more complicated for you, so just let me know how I can do that. Unless you want me to complicate things for you, then by all means, let me know how I can do that as well.
Nicole Williams
#39. My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.
Frances Hardinge
#40. I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.
Henry Thomas
#41. I am through fucking around. Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. No matter what sort of holes you poke in my trust.
Scott Lynch
#42. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
William Shenstone
#44. Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl
#45. There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection
Thomas Ligotti
#46. It's best if we just keep this casual and sleeping together after sex isn't casual. At least not to me."
"You're right. Sleeping together after sex does complicate casual. You're anything but casual, Kate. I want you and I always get what I want.
K.L. Kreig
#47. We are a simple creation ever eager to complicate ourselves. We are a loving animal, capable of showing so much love, who even though does not walk on all-four, is also capable, many a time, of nefarious, savage, demeaning, degrading and unfathomable acts against fellow humans.
Levi Cheruo Cheptora
#48. Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#49. The need to complicate something whose very beauty lay in simplicity and passion.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Life Is 'Simple' By Nature...
The deeper you try to study, the more you complicate it.
Just believe in it's simplicity & it shall show you it is
far too Simple actually!
Sujit Lalwani
#51. I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
Boris Pasternak
#52. Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
Witold Gombrowicz
#53. A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.
John Steinbeck
#55. Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.
Kristen Stewart
#56. 1. Be honest. Don't complicate things.
2. Do what scares you the most.
3. Always do the thing that could get you arrested.
4. Don't be afraid of reality.
Shana Norris
#57. In essence, Christianity is so simple that it eludes so many. Human beings have a tendency to need to complicate everything, including matters of faith. Jesus simply wants people to come to Him in faith so He can lead them and help them.
Mike Peralta
#58. Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw.
Nick Hornby
#59. When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and magic - give it some space.
We often complicate things by wondering how to fix it. At times, just some space and unsaid love can heal even those wounds that are deeply engraved.
Nikita Dudani
#60. If we try to complicate our lives, developing clever plans and ambitions, we lose sight of the way in which small, insignificant things actually hold the key to what we seek.
Yi-Ping Ong
#62. I require simple things. You, My children of dust, always complicate matters.
R.J. Larson
#63. We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
Mother Teresa
#65. Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#67. I fell back into the sofa, letting my head thump against the wall. Of course, there would be something else to complicate things. I couldn't catch a break with a net the size of Texas.
K.J. McPike
#68. The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.
Raymond Loewy
#69. Alex let out a sigh, pushing down a swell of jealousy. He didn't want Michael to like Tessa so much. His brother's affection would only complicate matters when Alex finally swept Tessa off her feet.
Jody Hedlund
#70. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
Ben Carson
#71. Girls always told me..."Don't complicate things." I did my best. It was so hard to keep things simple.
Leos Carax
#72. The Hack is the action you take to expose, jam, complicate, disrupt, or otherwise point out the crack to the organization.
Jason Little
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