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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. -- Oscar Wilde
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory. -- Stephenie Meyer
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. -- Wumen Huikai
Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things. -- Donald A. Norman
Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most. -- David A. Bednar
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary. -- Maimonides
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture. -- Walton Goggins
So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast. -- William James
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you. -- Chogyam Trungpa
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things -- Leo Tolstoy
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. -- Richard Baxter
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. -- Arthur Wellesley
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary -- Richard Baxter
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. -- Gregory Skovoroda
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. -- Duke of Wellington
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. -- Enya
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ... -- Dorothy Parker
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -- C. S. Lewis
I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. -- Demetri Martin
But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore. -- Daryl Hannah
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. -- Leo Tolstoy
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. -- Edward de Bono

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