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In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be the sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquillity, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.

I longed only to turn back and climb and begin life all over again in a place where I might find the peace I'd once known in mountains of another time and another place, and I wondered-if I could slip out of camp unobserved-whether I just might be able to stay hidden and uncaptured until this war came to an end.

When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.

It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a "smile

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.

Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, __nd the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Simplicity is the spring of heart.

It was simpler just to keep things simple.

Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.

The world becomes so much larger the smaller you live.

Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ... Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather. It makes no difference whether it is built of turf or variegated marble imported from another country: what you have to understand is that thatch makes a person just as good a roof as gold.