“The simplest things are often the truest.”

— Richard Bach

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Richard Bach 154

American spiritual writer 1936

Clyfford Still (1904–1980) American artist

As quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 137
1950s

“Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

On War (1832), Book 1

“Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work”

Kent Beck (1961) software engineer

“That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Variant: That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.