I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. Henry David Thoreau
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Simplifying the complexities of the world around us may seem like an impossible task at first, but in time we will begin to see that it is in fact not. By simplifying our lives we become more in tune with our true selves, where we stop the mind games and let life be what it is.

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