Minimalism Quotes

“Don’t look at the person who has it all. Look to the person who doesn’t need it all.”
― Toyin Omofoye

“Whenever an animal is overworking, a human is to blame.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“High-priced possessions are all too often used as makeup … to hide low self-esteem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I own a house, small but comfortable. In it is a bed, a desk,
a kitchen, a closet, a telephone. And so forth you know
how it is: things collect.

Outside the summer clouds are drifting by, all of them
with vague and beautiful faces. And there are the pines
that bush out spicy and ambitious, although they do not
even know their names. And there is the mockingbird;
over and over he rises from his thorn-tree and dances—he
actually dances, in the air. And there are days I wish I
owned nothing, like the grass.”
― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

“It’s one thing to have all that you need.
It’s another thing to recognize that you have all you need.”
― Toyin Omofoye

“Saving money is for fools. The wise achieve the very same or even better result by simply not wasting money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In a fool, education can be like a full box of matches in the hand of a toddler that is home-alone.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Appearances can be deceiving: Some of those who own the most expensive homes look homeless.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A restless mind makes a problem of a resting body.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Jaggery powder comes from the soil, not from supermarket. Connect to the source.”
― Shunya

“absent pleasures are not bad.”
― David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When I was young, my language wore coats and shirts and trousers, neckties, bespoke shoes. In my lifetime as a writer I have cast off layer after layer of clothing in pursuit of nudity.”
― Donald Hall, A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

“Happiness is not having what you love, it is loving what you have.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Another thing we must recognize about clutter is that it's active. Even if it's just sitting there on a shelf or buried in a box, clutter is actively working in our lives.”
― Kathi Lipp, Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps to Simplifying Your Space

“Paying or having paid for something often makes it seem necessary; or better, more important, or more useful than it is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Don’t look at the person who has it all; look to the personwho doesn’t need it all.”
― Toyin Omofoye

“The saving of money is usually the delaying of the wasting of money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fill everything, but own nothing.
We are vessels, not containers”
― Dr. Toyin Omofoye

“Greed is bad for the person … and the environment, but good for the economy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When it comes to fuelling hard work, poverty is in most poor people way less powerful than greed is in most rich people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Success is the longest route to deciding to be happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Success freed the vast majority of those who are successful from the enslaving desire to be successful, only to replace it with the enslaving desire to remain or to be even more successful.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“absent pleasures are not bad”
― David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

“There is nothing they can take away that will take away from me.”
― Toyin Omofoye

“Minimalism is very effective for cutting down on costs, but it isn’t just limited to just that. We can change the way we use money. We can direct it away from things that are just for show and invest instead in experiences, people, or new initiatives. We can spend our money where it’s really important.”
― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

“Once you’ve gone ahead and minimized, it’s time to find out what those important things are. Minimalism is like the prologue of a book; the stories to follow can only be created by the individual. As I’ve said, minimalism is so effective and its methods so worthwhile that people can get confused and think it’s their true objective. But remember, the important thing is what you’re going to do after. Once you’ve said goodbye to all those extra things, it’s time to create your own unique story.”
― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

“Life is simple; we make it complicated.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz