Quotes about minimalism

Minimalism is about creating space to live simply and meaningfully it’s about living intentionally.

There’s been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

...minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.

To find doesn't always require to search.

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

While the people of Madrid seem to have resigned to selling almost anything - the one thing they have never given up on so far - is time. It is the one commodity that is never sold and always shared.

You don't need more space. You need less stuff.

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to. I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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

Owning less is better than organizing more.

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

Make art and live simply.

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?

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

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Minimalism means not trying to improve perfection.

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

The IdealThis is where I came from.I passed this way.This should not be shameful Or hard to say.A self is a self. It is not a screen. A person should respectWhat he has been. This is my past Which I shall not discard. This is the ideal.This is hard.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and sexual identification. … But [regarding] national character …, aside from references to a national aesthetic — literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both — the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Me

O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth his pipe.Take care! Hot noontide sleepeth on the fields. Do not sing! Hush! The world is perfect.Do not sing, thou prairie-bird, my soul! Do not even whisper! Lo—hush! The old noontide sleepeth, it moveth its mouth: doth it not just now drink a drop of happiness——An old brown drop of golden happiness, golden wine? Something whisketh over it, its happ

This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.

Write that novel, sail that boat. And if you can't, immerse yourself in the fantasy, be the ultimate dabbler, just enjoy what it is you enjoy. It'll help you get well if you're going to get well, and it'll help you sail that great boat in the sky if that's what's going to happen. Onwards and Upwards. No regrets.

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

...you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life.

Your home is living space, not storage space.

Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I need my books. I need new thoughts and lessons, from older souls, bars, whisky, libraries; different ones in different towns. I need my music. I need my songs. I need the safety of somewhere to rest my head at night, when my eyes get heavy. And I need space. Lots of space. To run, and sing, and change around in any way I please—outer or inner—and I need to love. I need the space to love ideas and t

I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even the word itself carried with it a negative connotation. Work—bluck! When I left the corporate world, I swore off the word altogether. Noun, verb, adjective—I avoided all of work’s iterations. I no longer ‘went to work,’ so that was easy to remove from my vocabulary. In fact, I no longer ‘worked’ at all

This [sand-dollar hunting] had become one of our rituals together, and though she would search for other varieties of shells when I was out of town or unable to see her, she would wait until I appeared on her front porch before setting off to extract these mute delicate coins from their settings in the sand. At first, we had collected only the larger specimens, but gradually as we learned what was rare and to be truly prized, we began to gather only the smallest sand dollars for our collection.

Simple is complicated.

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.

For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.

You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.

Eyes blinded by the fog of thingscannot see truth.Ears deafened by the din of thingscannot hear truth.Brains bewildered by the whirl of thingscannot think truth.Hearts deadened by the weight of thingscannot feel truth.Throats choked by the dust of thingscannot speak truth.

Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of science.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,by what can't be it must be challenged...

You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free--you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.

If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time