Being in the moment and living with simplicity optimize happiness and contentment

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. 
 - Leonardo da Vinci 

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.” 

 

-Yamamoto Tsunetomo from *Hagakure*: *The Book of the Samurai*

 

 

 Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. 

 - William Hazlitt said

 

 

Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify.

-  Henry David Thoreau said

 

 

 

God is infinitely simple.

 - Thomas Aquinas 

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein 

 

 

 

Quakers practice the Testimony of Simplicity

 

 

Occam's razor is about simplicity as a meta-scientific criterion by which to evaluate competing theories

 
"For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."

 - H. L. Mencken