Minimalism Quotes

"The ability to be happy with less is the ultimate leverage."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"The more you know, the less you need."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

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

"Minimalism is a tool that lets us focus on what's really important so we can find happiness."

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

"The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't."

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"If you have to buy stuff to store your stuff, you might have too much stuff."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."

"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."

"Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right things done."

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

"Live simply so that others may simply live."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest."

"If you have to buy a bigger house for your stuff, you have too much stuff."

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"I'm selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house."

"A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world."

"If you can't decide, the answer is no."

"Make it so easy you can't say no."

"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."

"It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have."

"Complexity drains our existence; we must simplify our affairs to two or three items rather than a hundred or a thousand. Simplify, simplify."

"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."

"Minimalism is a tool that lets you see what is actually important in your life by shedding everything that isn't."

"The key to a digital declutter is to start with a blank slate."

"The intention of minimalism is to remove the excess so you can focus on what is truly important."

"Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it."

"Real wealth is not about money. Real wealth is about freedom."