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Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.


Leo Babauta

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LEO TOLSTOY Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO BUSCAGLIA If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to...
LEO ROSTEN Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and...
LEO BURNETT Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of da...
LEO BUSCAGLIA It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
LEO TOLSTOY A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continue...
LEO TOLSTOY A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behi...
LEO ROSTEN Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lo...
LEO HOWARD Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOY