Minimalism Quotes

“She remembered who she was
and the game changed.”
― Lalah Delia

“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.”
― Nathan W. Morris

“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.”
― Bob Newhart

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
― Francine Jay, Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify

“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.”
― Joshua Becker

“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines

“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.”
― Joshua Becker, Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life

“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Eyes blinded by the fog of things
cannot see truth.
Ears deafened by the din of things
cannot hear truth.
Brains bewildered by the whirl of things
cannot think truth.
Hearts deadened by the weight of things
cannot feel truth.
Throats choked by the dust of things
cannot speak truth.”
― Harold Bell Wright, The Uncrowned King

“It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
― Nathan W. Morris

“Your home is living space, not storage space.”
― Francine Jay

“You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free--you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.”
― Arvo Pärt

“I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.”
― Nathan W. Morris

“A well-used minimum suffices for everything.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.”
― Colin Wright, My Exile Lifestyle

“Some things cost way more when we keep them.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Procrasdemon makes you waste your time on things that do not add value to your life.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.”
― Jackie French Koller

“We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Claus myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys.
"Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten", Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Before Buying Anythiny, Ask Yourself. Is it going to add value in your life?"

- The Minimalist”
― LastCigaretteMusic

“If their story is lost, precious
family treasures are demoted to antiques. Knowing history is
the difference between selling them when you’re hard up for
cash or holding on to them at all costs.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“While decluttering with Maria, I noticed my childhood items
in the discard pile. The realization that my daughter didn’t
care about my treasures hurt.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“No one has an orderly home all the time, and unless you hire
a maid to clean and tidy constantly, families with kids won’t
always have tidy homes. Sometimes kids have bad days, a
family emergency occurs, or your child needs you to play
with them. These are all great reasons to leave the house to
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entropy and focus on your family”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“I wish schools taught the benefits of owning less in home
economics class. My generation learned that cleaning and
organizing would fix our stuff problem, but that won’t help
when you own too much. Hopefully, we can teach our kids
the joy of having less and not hand down the desire for more,
more, MORE to yet another generation.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“We can’t wear
more than one coat at a time. Why do we own thirty coats
for five people?’’ Mulling it over, I concluded, “My house isn’t
too small. It’s my excess stuff that made it shrink.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“Love Peoples, Use Things"

- The Minimalist”
― @LastCigaretteMusuc

“Before Buying Anything, Ask Yourself. Is it going to add value in your life?"

- The Minimalist”
― LastCigaretteMusic

“It is essential to understand that for humans to thrive as a healthy species, we must live in a society that nurtures the capacity to love one another. We need to live in a world that promotes unity instead of division, restraint and sacrifice over immediate gratification, and altruistic values rather than narcissistic ones. Unfortunately, our current culture is deeply entrenched in consumerism and hedonism, actively endorsing attitudes, values, and aspirations that are fundamentally at odds with the needs of our soul”
― Enric Mestre Arenas, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being