Quotes About Minimalism

A foundational theme in digital minimalism is that new technology, when used with care and intention, creates a better life than either Luddism or mindless adoption.

Put another way: minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

how to put new technologies to use for our best aspirations and not against them. Digital minimalism is one such strategy. It's toward its details that we now turn our attention.

I met Tyler roughly a year after his minimalist decision to leave social media. He was clearly excited by how his life had changed during this period. He started volunteering near his home, he exercises regularly, he's reading three to four books a month, he began to learn to play the ukulele, and he told me that now that his phone is no longer glued to his hand, he's closer than he has ever been with his wife and kids.

Digital minimalists recognize that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item

Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.

Yes, I'm just a developer, so I try to find the simplest possible solutions. ... If you go to a bakery, the bakery isn't playing with five million different tools just because the old flour became too boring after a while. - Adam Bien

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

Franca, darling, let's be simple. And move quietly in the dark.

You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can't always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you've planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

He optado por una vida simple, con menos cosas materiales y más tiempo ocioso, menos preocupaciones y más diversión, menos compromisos sociales y más amistad verdadera, menos bochinche y más silencio.

Consciente de que se requiere una gran ligereza para desprenderse del suelo, echó todo por la borda, se deshizo de sus bienes terrenales y eliminó sentimientos y deseos superfluos, quedándose sólo con lo esencial, escribió unas cuantas cartas y por último se tendió en su cama para no levantarse más.

Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and observe your thoughts - oh, and by the way, what you perceive as you' doesn't actually exist.' I loved the minimalist approach of it.

I'm a zero inbox guy.

The best direction is the least possible direction.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

True affluence is not needing anything.

Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.

There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.