“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”— Lin Yutang, amazon.com
“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.”— David Paul Kirkpatrick, amazon.com
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduce…”— Henry David Thoreau, theamericanreader.com
“Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”— Eleanor Brownn, amazon.com
“Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.”— Joshua Becker, amazon.com
“At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from.”— Joshua Becker, amazon.com
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”— Socrates, amazon.com
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”— E. F. Shumacker, amazon.com
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.”— Nathan W. Morris, amazon.com
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.”— Marie Kondo, amazon.com
“When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.”— Marie Kondo, amazon.com
“Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address was 275 words long. Two hundred of those words were one syllable. I want to declare that Abraham Lincoln English is the official language of the Procter & Gamble Co., and I want to encourage that kind of simplicity… I think maybe 80% of the memos we write at P&G…”— Tom Laco, amazon.com
“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. It is the persistent search for purity, the search for serenity, for silence as a presen…”— Massimo Vignelli, claudiosilvestrin.eu