Between the minimalistic one-eyed smiley face and the extravagant three-eyed smiley face, we find the just-right two-eyed smiley face . . .
“Simple pleasures are life’s greatest treasures.” -Author Unknown
“Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful.” -Author Unknown
“Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” -Author Unknown
“There is no need to have it all, just make the best of what you have.” -Author Unknown
“Less is more.” -Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Men and Women” (1855), ‘Andrea del Sarto’; quotation often misattributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (1886 - 1969)) and others
“Less is a bore.” -Robert Venturi
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
“There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)
“Seek simplicity and distrust it.” -Alfred Whitehead (Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947))
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell’
“To simplify complications is the first essential of success.” -George Earle Buckle
“All the good things of the world are no further good to us than they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.” -Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe (1659 - 1731))
“We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
“Anything simple always interests me.” -David Hockney
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.” -Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus (about 99 B.C.E. - about 55 B.C.E.))
“Life is beautiful in its simplicity.” -Thomas Matthiessen
“We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.” -Anna C. Brackett (born 1836)
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” -Author Unknown
“Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold, holds you.” -Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene ‘Tom’ Robbins (born 1932)): “Still Life with Woodpecker” (1980)
“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
“I like to go to Marshall Field’s in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.” -Mother Mary Madeleva: “My First Seventy Years” (1959)
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 17): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book VII, 67
“A lean horse runs a long race.” -Edgar Barzellai Howell
“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“Anything can be made to appear simple just by refusing to see the complexities.” -Author Unknown
“The less you possess, the freer you are.” -Author Unknown
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” -Doris Janzen Longacre (born 1940)
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” -Vernon Howard (born 1918)
“A little is as much as a lot, if it is enough.” -Steve Brown
“Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900): “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1885)
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies” (1922), ‘The Irony of Liberalism’
Overheard: I can’t get enough minimalism.
“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” -John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936))
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“You never know what you can do without until you try.” -Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 - 1960): as quoted in Louis E. Boone, editor: “Quotable Business” (1992)
“That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.” -Plutarch (C.E. 46 - C.E. 120))
“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.” -Linda Breen Pierce (born 1947)
“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 (Ernst Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Schumacher (1911 - 1977))
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply as Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.” -Edsger W. Dijkstra (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)): “On the Nature of Computing Science” (1984)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
“The road to minimalism: Give away one thing each day, whether it’s a paperclip or an article of clothing, until you have reached an amount of possessions you need to function in life, and then stop because there’s no sense in also giving away what you need in order to live a life and to function in society.” -Author Unknown
“To get more out of life, start by eliminating everything that is nonessential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” -Elise Boulding (born 1920)
“If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.” -14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935 as Lhamo Thondup))
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” -Edwin Way Teale (born 1899)
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould (born 1879)
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“Who lives content with little possesses everything.” -Boileau
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” -Alan Perlis
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
“The great artist is the simplifier.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 - 1881)
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“If it doesn’t add to your life, it doesn’t belong in your life.” -Author Unknown
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the Earth and all temporary nature.” -Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471)
“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 (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.)
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” -Joseph Brotherton (born 1783)
“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” -Wumen Huikai (also known as Wu-Men (C.E. 1183 - C.E. 1260))
“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.” -Publius Terentius Afer (also known as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))
“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you can imagine.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“All the books extolling the simple life are written by men.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“The awkward richness of possibilities seems to shatter any possible coherent theory of simplicity.” -Slobkin
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842))
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.” -George Sand (born 1804)
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter: “The Peter Pyramid”
“All that is complex is useless and all that is useful is simple.” -Author Unknown
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” -C. W. Ceran
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” -Lope de Vega (born 1562)
“The simplest things are often the truest.” -Richard Bach (born 1936)
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.” -Duane Elgin (born 1937)
This is MFOL! . . . a website so simple that even adults can figure it out . . .
“Simple pleasures are life’s greatest treasures.” -Author Unknown
“Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful.” -Author Unknown
“Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” -Author Unknown
“There is no need to have it all, just make the best of what you have.” -Author Unknown
“Less is more.” -Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Men and Women” (1855), ‘Andrea del Sarto’; quotation often misattributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (1886 - 1969)) and others
“Less is a bore.” -Robert Venturi
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
“There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)
“Seek simplicity and distrust it.” -Alfred Whitehead (Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947))
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790 - 1793), ‘Proverbs of Hell’
“To simplify complications is the first essential of success.” -George Earle Buckle
“All the good things of the world are no further good to us than they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.” -Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe (1659 - 1731))
“We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
“Anything simple always interests me.” -David Hockney
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.” -Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus (about 99 B.C.E. - about 55 B.C.E.))
“Life is beautiful in its simplicity.” -Thomas Matthiessen
“We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.” -Anna C. Brackett (born 1836)
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.” -Author Unknown
“Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold, holds you.” -Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene ‘Tom’ Robbins (born 1932)): “Still Life with Woodpecker” (1980)
“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
“I like to go to Marshall Field’s in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.” -Mother Mary Madeleva: “My First Seventy Years” (1959)
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 17): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book VII, 67
“A lean horse runs a long race.” -Edgar Barzellai Howell
“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“Anything can be made to appear simple just by refusing to see the complexities.” -Author Unknown
“The less you possess, the freer you are.” -Author Unknown
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” -Doris Janzen Longacre (born 1940)
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” -Vernon Howard (born 1918)
“A little is as much as a lot, if it is enough.” -Steve Brown
“Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900): “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1885)
“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies” (1922), ‘The Irony of Liberalism’
Overheard: I can’t get enough minimalism.
“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” -John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936))
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“You never know what you can do without until you try.” -Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 - 1960): as quoted in Louis E. Boone, editor: “Quotable Business” (1992)
“That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.” -Plutarch (C.E. 46 - C.E. 120))
“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.” -Linda Breen Pierce (born 1947)
“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 (Ernst Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Schumacher (1911 - 1977))
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply as Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.” -Edsger W. Dijkstra (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)): “On the Nature of Computing Science” (1984)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
“The road to minimalism: Give away one thing each day, whether it’s a paperclip or an article of clothing, until you have reached an amount of possessions you need to function in life, and then stop because there’s no sense in also giving away what you need in order to live a life and to function in society.” -Author Unknown
“To get more out of life, start by eliminating everything that is nonessential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” -Elise Boulding (born 1920)
“If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.” -14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935 as Lhamo Thondup))
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” -Edwin Way Teale (born 1899)
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould (born 1879)
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.)
“Who lives content with little possesses everything.” -Boileau
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” -Alan Perlis
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
“The great artist is the simplifier.” -Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 - 1881)
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“If it doesn’t add to your life, it doesn’t belong in your life.” -Author Unknown
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the Earth and all temporary nature.” -Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471)
“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 (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.)
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” -Joseph Brotherton (born 1783)
“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” -Wumen Huikai (also known as Wu-Men (C.E. 1183 - C.E. 1260))
“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.” -Publius Terentius Afer (also known as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))
“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you can imagine.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“All the books extolling the simple life are written by men.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))
“The awkward richness of possibilities seems to shatter any possible coherent theory of simplicity.” -Slobkin
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842))
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.” -George Sand (born 1804)
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” -Bruce Lee (pseudonym of Lee Jun Fan (1940 - 1973))
“You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter: “The Peter Pyramid”
“All that is complex is useless and all that is useful is simple.” -Author Unknown
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” -C. W. Ceran
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” -Lope de Vega (born 1562)
“The simplest things are often the truest.” -Richard Bach (born 1936)
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.” -Duane Elgin (born 1937)
This is MFOL! . . . a website so simple that even adults can figure it out . . .
