Certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct
are more conducive to inner and outer harmony that others.
There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow.
Simplification of life is one of them.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied;
he must know how to disengage what is essential
from the detail in which it is enwrapped,
for everything cannot be equally considered;
in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
Simplicity lies in a perfect concentration,
and integration of all the elements
that compose a particular form, pattern, expression, movement or action.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Simplicity springs out of the elimination of all that is superfluous,
all encumbrances and hindrances,
retaining only the essential of value.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
The greatest truths find their most natural expression
in beautifully simple forms,
each a perfect summation in which the unity of the whole
is not obscured by a miscellany of parts.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
When all things naturally and spontaneously serve one single purpose,
there is simplicity,
for life is simple at the center where unity prevails.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete
until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication,
and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
-Lin Yutang
