Minimalism Quotes

“I feel life today is too competitive to be enjoyable. Even if you don't want it to be, life is one intense competition, and how well you fare in it will determine your happiness and success. Most people just want to look like a winner more than they want to be a winner. I detest the competitiveness that permeates the society and how everything revolves around establishing yourself as a unique individual and honing skills that you can advertise in the market place. Contrary to popular belief, competition is not always beneficial. It adds a lot of unwanted frustration and stress. It can be destructive to one's self-esteem. Competition makes us imitate our competitors and we lose our identity in the midst of it. Why does it matter how successful someone else is in comparison to me? To be honest, I don't really care about being successful now. I just want the freedom to do anything I want without having to worry about social standards.”
― Sai Pradeep

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

“Physical clutter can be a way to hide what you don't want to face -- unfulfilled dreams, broken promises, or painful experiences from the past. Be gentle with yourself when you de-clutter. As you handle each item, quietly say a prayer, let it go, then move on. Trust that if you need the item, it will come back to you in another form at the proper time.”
― Eleanor Brownn, The Other Serenity Prayer: Meditations on Self-Kindness

“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

“The real test for poets 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

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary”
― Blaise Pascal

“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A cup with a broken handle can still handle its task.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Here's the thing I've learned through the uncomfortable process of saying goodbye to that monkey: holding on doesn't make their growing up any easier. It won't slow down time or let us relive favorite moments. It simply keeps our arms too full to wholeheartedly embrace the season we're entering.”
― Rachelle Crawford, Messy Minimalism: Realistic Strategies for the Rest of Us

“Conformity is the drug with which many people self-medicate”
― Ryan Nicodemus Joshua Fields Millburn

“Design is like a magic trick, it's all about creating the illusion of simplicity.”
― Rahul Raman, Pixel Land: A detailed guide on how to design a functional User Interface, even your grandma could use it!

“A new way of life would open for each of us if we redefine our pursuits and appreciate what we already have.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The world needs more people who celebrate the little things in life and find life in every little thing.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The biggest disadvantage of a minimalist room is that you may even find yourself unnecessary in that minimalism and feel uncomfortable with yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from them.”
― Joshua Becker, The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own

“I no longer want to hold on to things that clutter my mind and cripple my soul. Please give me the wisdom and strength to let things go. Let me flow. Let me grow.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“What we have is not who we are
Who we are is all we have”
― Rick Julian

“Flies are annoying by nature and their behavior will never change; we can only keep them away. We should do the same with toxic people.”
― Rodolfo Peon

“I love the smell, the lovely aroma of indulgent lushness, of people with inner peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“It’s not the greatest but the little things that show us the path and guide us home.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“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

“There is a life outside the shopping mall. When you understand this, you'll understand sustainability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Everyday life is like programming, I guess.If you love something you can put beauty on it.”
― Donald Knuth

“More is better" turns out to be a formula for dissatisfaction. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”
― Joe Dominguez Vicki Robin, Your money or your life, richest man in babylon and mindset with muscle 3 books collection set

“Some people slammed their doors, others didn't,” he told me in his acquired, patient tone. “I had to deal with a lot of rejection in a way I never had before. Some days, I ate very little and walked slowly. It was a discipline I needed away from a world where I could have everything.”
― Steven Keith Hunter, Relish In the Tread

“I come always to the conclusion that the English poets waste too much energy in "words, words, words.”
― Yoné Noguchi, The spirit of Japanese poetry

“Basically, I'm a very spiritual person. I'm very tempted to renounce almost everything. Perhaps it's because of my Catholic upbringing. I have this tendency to want to renounce things that have any bad effects at all, because their good effects are always offset by their bad effects.”
― Robert Crumb

“Touching unnoticed objects reactivates your sense of
ownership. Reactivating ownership makes it harder to let go.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms