Quotes for All
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dr. Seuss
I remember somebody saying, I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It’s just too complicated. Life’s too complicated. I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the ’80s and my grandparents going, Oh, it’s too complicated. It … Read more
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you’ve not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you’re still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not … Read more
That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. Cheryl Strayed
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Charles Mingus
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite. Blake Mycoskie
Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no … Read more
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson