Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~Frederic Chopin
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. ~Albert Einstein
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~Albert Einstein
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ~Thomas a Kempis
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ~Charles Mingus
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. ~Albert Schweitzer
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. ~Henry David Thoreau
* Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. ~Henry David Thoreau
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ~Leo Tolstoy
Simplicity is the glory of expression
~ Walt Whitman
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacher
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein, possibly a paraphrase by Roger Sessions
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ~Albert Einstein
Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Ann Seton
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang
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
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ~William Morris
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. ~Michael Harrington
How many things are there which I do not want. ~Socrates
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. ~Robert Brault
Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion. ~The Talmud
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. ~Robert Brault
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. ~Steve Maraboli
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~Henry David Thoreau
The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. ~Annie Dillard, “Seeing,” Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974
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 don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. ~Donald Horban
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Way Teale
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. ~Elbert Hubbard
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it. ~Robert Brault
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. ~Elbert Hubbard
Self Awareness
Our ability to listen, evaluate, process and clarify. Then give a heartfelt response that leaves all observers and participants of this experience with some varying degrees of a personal victory ~EDamp 2015
Potential
When we define ourselves in terms of the things we won’t do. We can’t achieve the potential and greatness that will truly and positively change the world ~EDamp 2015
Life Ascending
It’s not about where you start out in life but where you end up.
More about the Legacy of how we handle life’s failures as well
as how we deal with our success and the perceptions left along the way. ~EDamp 2014
Life
Learn in the Present
Prepare for the Future
Gain and Share Wisdom along the way
~EDamp 2016
About Success
Most people who struggle in life tend to see themselves as the ultimate consumers.
Those who are driven in groves to buy costly items or waste money foolishly on things that have little value other than perceived status.
Items that are no more than shiny baubles, things that personify the “Laws of Diminishing Returns”.
Successful people often present themselves as informed consumers and ultimate producers of value-added
positive ideas and philosophies.
Most purchases generally fall into a category of items or products that increase in value or add to net worth.
Success it is not a notion it is a way life and constant state of being.
~E Damp 2016
From the Seeds of Post Election Despair How does your garden Grow
Each day I awake to Deep Sorrow, Misery, Despair, Uncertainty Joylessness and Hopelessness.
This from a Glass Half Full Personality Type.
Then I have to surgically drive out the darkness.
With the Light of Love, Hope, Joy, Self Education and the seeds of positive actions.
These things provide light in our darkest times and makes our garden grow tall and strong and proud this gives us HOPE!
More importantly it helps maintain our Humanity.
Which keeps us from becoming one of the many monsters who has escaped their closets or slipped from under their bare beds. That exist in our Darkest Nightmares.
By E. Dampeer Copyright © Nov 2016