Annie Hill famous quotes

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.
-- Annie Hill

#Peace #Believe #Simplicity

Freedom is never very safe.
-- Annie Hill

#Safe

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.