Quotes About Minimalism

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

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

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify." Or, as Plato wrote, "In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

My material life is simple.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Eliminate the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Getting rid of the clutter is not about letting go of things that are meaningful to you. It's about letting go of the things that no longer contribute to your life so you have the time and the energy and the space for the things that do.

I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

The advice to simplify our lives brings to mind William Morris' dictum that we should have nothing in our houses that we don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. More recently, Marie Kondo has suggested that unless an object 'sparks joy' in our heart, we should get rid of it.

I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.

Simplicity is not about eating by sitting on the floor but leading truly a simple life to the heart core.

Beauty unadorned.

Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more - no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life...the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.