Quotes About Minimalism

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him and nothing anyone can do to hurt him.

She loves throwing things out. At home alone during the week before she fell over all she did was throw things out – blouses, old dinner-sets, shoes, vases, mugs, sheets and rugs. It excited her to empty cupboards, to wipe down the empty shelves, to take the things we were throwing out to the tip, she loved our trips to the tip, her mind quickened at the prospect of the tip.

The kitchen looked like it was rarely used, except for a toaster on a counter surrounded by crumbs

it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

Less is a bore.

The richest person in the world, I've since discovered, isn't the person who has the most but the one who needs the least.

Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.

Basically, I reduced my needs.

final ritual?" "This is the all-important Ritual of Simplicity.

sell your cellular phone

Specific application ideas include selling your television, avoiding the news for the remainder of your days, staying out of noisy shopping malls where you buy things you don't need, unfriending energy-draining people you follow on social platforms

unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled.

An intense concentration only on what matters most is how the pros realize victory. Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.

Stop picking up the phone every time it rings, stop wasting time reading junk mail, stop eating out three times a week, give up your golf-club membership and spend more time with your kids, spend a day a week without your watch, watch the sun rise every few days, sell your cellular phone and dump the pager.

Less is more, you know? You're attempting too much. Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

Simplify your life. Strip away all that is unimportant – then focus, focus, focus. You'll be surprised how good you will then get at being great.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.

With a country boy's love of open spaces, he hated anything confined or cluttered

Be on as few pieces of paper as it is possible for a human being to be.

Reacher was led through the door on the left and onward to an interview room. Which had no windows. Just four blank walls, and a table bolted to the floor, with two chairs on one side and one on the other. The room had not been designed by the dining room guy. That was clear. There was no blond wood or carpet. Just scuffed white paint on cinder block, and a cracked concrete floor, and a fluorescent bulb in a wire cage on the ceiling.

Where's your luggage?" "I don't use any." "You have no stuff?" "I saw a little book in a store at the airport. Apparently we're supposed to get rid of whatever doesn't bring us joy.