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You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?
America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.
The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use.
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.
I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's just the way I talk.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.
In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.
Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?
It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.
When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.
Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.