Quotes About Minimalism

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.

To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.

I love hi-tech kitchens, but that doesn't necessarily mean full of appliances.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

I don't belong to any social network, and I don't even message much. In fact, most of the time, I don't even use my mobile phone.

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

I've always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

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Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

When you travel a lot, you learn to pack the same for every trip. Six white shirts, two black trousers. The bare minimum you need to survive.

Si no sabes lo que quieres —continuó el porte­ro—, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

The things you own end up owning you

Si no sabes lo que quieres –continuó el portero–, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

The things you own, end up owning you. Tyler Durden

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that's poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse