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10 Quotes On Minimalism That Will Inspire You To Live Your Best, Most Simple Life

10 Quotes On Minimalism That Will Inspire You To Live Your Best, Most Simple Life

We could all use a little simplification.

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

— Nathan W. Morris, Your 33 Day Money Action Plan

Minimalism Editing Your Life Creating The Life You Want Living The Good Life

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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, Small Is Beautiful

Minimalism Intelligence Favors The Simple Fools Favor The Complex Your Simplicity Makes You A Genius Courage In The Pursuit of Less Going Against Consumerism

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

— Socrates, The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life

Minimalism Less Is More Strive For Less Enjoy Less Thrive On Less Seek Less

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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, Simplify

Minimalism Focus On What Grows You Cultivate What You Love Choose Only What You Need Survival Comes From Simplicity Promoting Value In Your Life

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Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.

— Joshua Becker, Simplify

Minimalism Truth Simple Truths Simplicity Impress Me With Your Life Impress Me With Your Growth

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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, Mile 9

Minimalism Cluttered Mind Clutter Is Toxic Clutter Is Baggage Unnecessary Things Will Weigh You Down The Baggage Of Excess

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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 reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

— Henry David Thoreau, Letters Of Note

Minimalism Mathematics Simplification Lessons From Mathematics To Distinguish The Necessary To Avoid The Excess

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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, The Address Of Happiness

Minimalism Learning To Live Again The Extraordinary Pursuit Of Simplicity Learning To Love The Small Things Refining Your life Life Blooms In Simplicity

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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, The Importance Of Living

Minimalism Simplicity Is Art Nobility In Simplicity Letting Go Of The Nonessentials Eliminate The Excess The Wisdom Of Letting Go

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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

Minimalism Simplicity Less Equals More The Paradox Of Abundance

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