Simplification Of Life Quotes

#1. The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Peace Pilgrim

#2. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#3. A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Bill McKibben

#4. The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear - the simplification that distorts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Send me the half that's got my keys.

Harry Graham

#6. ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.

Elaine St. James

#7. It's easy to say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few when no one's holding a gun to your head.

Seanan McGuire

#8. The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Hanif Kureishi

#9. When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

Tim Worstall

#10. The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

Bono

#11. Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#12. People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Young-Ha Kim

#13. A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

Daniel Handler

#14. Second place is really the first loser.

George Steinbrenner

#15. Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#16. Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

Harold Klemp