Quotes About Minimalism

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Ellos (Los Auténticos) creen que los objetos generan miedo. Cuantas más cosas tienes más tienes que temer. Al final sólo vives para tener cosas.

But simple is far from easy.

There is no greater work of minimalist art than the dry garden in the Zen Buddhist temple of Ry?an-ji, Kyoto. This comprises fifteen rocks of various sizes set in a sea of white, raked gravel; almost nothing, but you could look at it for hours. It was made about 500 years before the modernist architect Mies van der Rohe remarked that less is more.

Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn't pull its weight.

Constant addition without subtraction always make a mess.

The ability to subtract features is the rare gift of the true communicator.

Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.

Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn't this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

El mayor refinamiento es la mayor simplicidad

Black forest nothing you say matters it snows all morning

Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn't always the same as achievement.

Aim to have less stuff to do.

In one life she only ate toast.

A ver short chapter with a long title, in which not very much happens.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don't need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything.

Henry David Thoreau's Walden, both

Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's—that's usually the way this business works.

What else was Diogenes of Sinope seeking for than the true enjoyment of life, which he discovered in having the least possible wants?

That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.

There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.

Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!

You want a better life? Simplify your life! Throw all the complexities from your life!

They who can go without all things, not needing them, are far more blessed than they who possess them in their need. That person is the best who can do without what they do not need.