“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.”— Nathan W. Morris, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Editing Your Life, Creating The Life You Want, Living The Good Life
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”— E. F. Shumacker, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Intelligence Favors The Simple, Fools Favor The Complex, Your Simplicity Makes You A Genius, Courage In The Pursuit of Less
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”— Socrates, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Less Is More, Strive For Less, Enjoy Less, Thrive On Less
“At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from.”— Joshua Becker, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Focus On What Grows You, Cultivate What You Love, Choose Only What You Need, Survival Comes From Simplicity
“Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.”— Joshua Becker, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Truth, Simple Truths, Simplicity, Impress Me With Your Life
“Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”— Eleanor Brownn, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Cluttered Mind, Clutter Is Toxic, Clutter Is Baggage, Unnecessary Things Will Weigh You Down
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduce…”— Henry David Thoreau, theamericanreader.comTagged: Minimalism, Mathematics, Simplification, Lessons From Mathematics, To Distinguish The Necessary
“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.”— David Paul Kirkpatrick, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Learning To Live Again, The Extraordinary Pursuit Of Simplicity, Learning To Love The Small Things, Refining Your life
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”— Lin Yutang, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Simplicity Is Art, Nobility In Simplicity, Letting Go Of The Nonessentials, Eliminate The Excess
“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.”— Jon Kabat-Zinn, amazon.comTagged: Minimalism, Simplicity, Less Equals More, The Paradox Of Abundance