Minimalism Quotes

“The beautiful thing about simplicity is that it is flexible, modular, cheap and light.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Your happiness is directly proportional to how much you enjoy what you have today.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Minimalism is the art of finding happiness in what you have and not what you desire.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Any degree of waste is too much.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whether good or bad, culture should never crystallize. The beauty of culture is in its evolution. Let culture always remain in a fluid state, gradually cooking in a stew pot and adapting to the changes.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“It is not money, fame, or power that creates positive emotional energy. It's happiness, and happiness does not cost any money. Everyone needs to feel happy.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The end of the road
is the beginning
of the wild unknown.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“People who crib and criticize lose the pleasure of gratitude.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Every possession is an illusion because whatever comes in goes out one day.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The best luxury is least luxury.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“It wasn't the amount of stuff; it was the engagement with that stuff [that mattered for happiness].”
― Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

“Happiness is a personal choice and a collective need.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Happiness is available globally in abundance and is affordable to all because it is hidden in tiny little things. Happy feelings constitute a human fuel that is needed for all of us to live a fulfilled life.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Happiness is like oxygen. It's free and is equally accessible to all of us.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Anxiety is our inability to gather enough patience within ourselves to act in the best interest of the long-term benefits.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Anxiety provokes us to choose short-term gains to compromise long-term benefits.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“We spend ten hours a day to earn comfort for six hours.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Possession is an illusion of capitalism. As humans, we don't possess anything; we simply consume and move on.”
― Sukant Ratnakar

“Anxiety can only expedite your stress, not your success.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Forget about the wealth; we don't even possess our anger, ego, fear, and frustrations forever. They, too, leave.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“We are grounded, but the Earth is not. It’s hanging in the middle of the universe but still supports us.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Despite hanging in the middle of the galaxy, rotating and revolving all day and night, Earth is home to millions of creatures.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Today I'm a better follower of Jesus because I understand how much my heart used to be tied to the things of this world and because now I am freed up to cultivate my relationship with Him.”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“When embarking on a new and unfamiliar path, some may choose to stop or be passive for long periods without taking action. The main reason behind unwanted delays is our feelings of anxiety about the amount of work and discipline needed to catch up on the lessons we’ve missed. We focus too much on the intimidating feeling we have when learning about alternative paths and in-depth practices. Mental blocks lie mainly in resisting change or disturbing already established habits and dependencies.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Learning the mechanism of healing and realizing the role of contrast and diversity within and around us will give us the push we need to partake in healing. The obstacles we may encounter and the inevitable mistakes naturally serve as precious components of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual maturity.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Embarking on our path as a courageous soul will remind us that ultimately it does not matter how well we live, or the best way to avoid errors in our lifestyle decisions. Beginning will positively change our daily routines and habits, but the surface level changes are only a meager reward compared to the spiritual lessons along the way.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“While healing, we learn the most effective method of conquering self-limitations, becoming bulletproof to hardships, choosing selectively wiser decisions, and polishing our inner skills directly. We all need this time of training as a step to becoming mindful crafters of meaningful creations.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“We simply have to be guided back to the role of being a cooperative component of healing instead of an unconscious or passive healer.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Leere ist gut. Leere heißt Platz für Neues, Platz zum Durchatmen.”
― Sabrina Milazzo, Aus Asche und Nacht

“The real test for pots is how far they resist their impulse to utterance, or, in another word, to the publication of their own work—not how much they have written, but how much they have destroyed. To live poetry is the main thing, and the question of the poems written or published is indeed secondary.”
― Yoné Noguchi, The spirit of Japanese poetry