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    Douglas Coupland
    “People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
    tags: jared-wheat, money-quotes, rich, rich-and-poor, rich-man, rich-people, simple, simplicity, wealth, wealthy
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: aversion, humanity, internets, machines, simplicity, technology
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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  • #5
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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  • #6
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
    1668 likes

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  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “Manifest plainness,
    Embrace simplicity,
    Reduce selfishness,
    Have few desires.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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  • #8
    Bruce Lee
    “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: inspirational, motivation, priorities, simplicity, wisdom
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: joy
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
    4747 likes

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    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: love
    1700 likes

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  • #17
    William Blake
    “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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  • #18
    William Blake
    “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”
    ― William Blake
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  • #19
    William Blake
    “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: accomplishment
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  • #20
    William Blake
    “I was angry with my friend:
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    I was angry with my foe:
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
    ― William Blake, Songs of Experience
    tags: anger, grudges, rage, venting
    191 likes

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  • #21
    William Blake
    “He who binds to himself a joy
    Does the winged life destroy;
    But he who kisses the joy as it flies
    Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
    201 likes

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  • #22
    William Blake
    “Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.”
    ― William Blake
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a grain of sand,
    And a Heaven in a wild flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: poetry
    184 likes

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  • #24
    William Blake
    “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
    ― William Blake
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  • #25
    William Blake
    “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: moderation
    277 likes

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  • #26
    Kahlil Gibran
    “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: bright, dark, moon
    1424 likes

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  • #27
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
    tags: friendship
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: religion
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: inspirational
    227 likes

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  • #30
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: words
    175 likes

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  • #31
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    148 likes



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