“Instead of focusing on what you want to let go of or how much you want to minimize, focus on what’s valuable to you and on what you want to keep in your life.”— Maria Kondo, manrepeller.com
“We’re finally seeing a shift away from minimalism (not to mention millennial pink), both in fashion and in the world of interiors.”— Cait Munro, refinery29.com
“I am the kind of person, unfortunately or otherwise, who tends to find motivation in the last straw.”— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com
“Russell Dalrymple: So, what have you guys come up with? Jerry: Well, we thought about this in a variety of ways, but the basic idea is I would play myself… George: May I…? Jerry: Go ahead. George: I think I can sum up the show for you with one word: nothing. Russell Dalrymple: Nothing? George: Nothi…”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“I expected most contributors would follow the commencement-speech clichés of our high-achieving culture: dream big; set ambitious goals; try to change the world. In fact, a surprising number of people found their purpose by going the other way, by pursuing the small, happy life.”— David Brooks, nytimes.com
“In the same way women competed (and, alas, sometimes still compete) to see who could eat less and be thinner, until consuming any solid food at all was seen as indulgent, now we have to compete to see who can spend almost nothing.”— Jennifer Wright, harpersbazaar.com
“I've found that the happier you are, the less you need.”— Jim Patterson, Don Reo, Maggie, Debra Winger, imdb.com
“Buying better means buying fewer items from the disposable fashion cycle and buying with consideration.”— Don-Alvin Adegeest, fashionunited.uk
“Doesn't the fat fetish conflict with the minimalism?”— Don McEnery, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn’t matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back.”— Erin Loechner, amazon.com
“I think what's really compelling to people is the realization that this simplicity that they are interpreting as a luxury is actually pretty obtainable for anybody that wants it.”— Zach Klein, cbsnews.com
“Whoever said less is more was right: the less bullshit and frivolity you have in your life, the more attention you have to focus on what is really going on.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“One of the real problems with design-world minimalism is that it’s just become a signifier of the global elite...The richer you are, the less you have.”— Kyle Chayka, nytimes.com
“When you organize and eliminate clutter, you free yourself from stress and anxiety by eliminating feelings of overwhelm.”— S.J. Scott, Barrie Davenport, amazon.com
“Cut out the clutter, unplug the TV, reduce your time on social media and focus on what is of primary importance to you. Or to make it short and pithy; embrace minimalism.”— Andrew Syrios, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.com