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All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
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Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
Your innermost core has always been pure.
Purity is intrinsic to you,
it cannot be taken away.
- Osho
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The means we use must be as pure
as the ends we seek.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth,
so virtue appears from good deeds,
and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.
To walk safely through the maze of human life,
one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
- The Buddha
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein
This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A fool is one who goes on trusting;
a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.
You deceive him, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.
Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn.
His trust is tremendous; his trust is
so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense.
Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you.
Whatsoever experience comes to you,
let it happen, and then go on dropping it.
Go on cleaning your mind continuously;
go on dying to the past so you remain in the present here-now,
as if just born, just a babe.
- Osho
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The simple life is everything Vogue isn't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
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
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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