Quotes About Minimalism

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.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.

Lead a simple life. First reduce your greeds. Then reduce your needs.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Keep it simple, don't over do your self. Because simple is classy, and overdoing it looks trashy.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

I started out with nothin' and still have most of it left.

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

The richest man is not the one who owns the most, but the one who needs the least.

such as a three-ingredient tomato sauce, a chicken with just two lemons, a soup with but a ladleful of cannellini, a pork butt braised solely in milk, a bluefish baked with garlic and potatoes, a pasta with a fistful of small scallops, Bolognese sauce, are drawn from the everyday meals Marcella cooked for her family.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.

He asked so little of life that its frugal bounty amazed and delighted him.

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Simple is elegant and extremely efficient.

... security is not having things

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.