Are you minimalist and looking for some minimalism quotes that can relate to you? If yes, here we collected some of the minimalism quotes which tell the greatness of a few.
Minimalism Quotes
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“Minimalism is about an intentional search for happiness.” – Melissa Camara Wilkins
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Sometimes you don’t feel the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the height of it release.”
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“I make myself rich, by making my wants few.”
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“Simplicity and serenity are close friends of minimalism.” – Karen Alexander
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“Minimalism is not about having less. It’s about making room for more of what matters.”
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“The benefits of owning less are far greater than just a clean home. They also include focus, freedom, peace, and more passion for life.”
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“Minimalism, as a lifestyle, is the art of letting go.”
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“Simplifying my outside invited me to trust my inside.”
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“Anything you use often, and which truly adds value to your life, is a welcome part of a minimalist household.” – Francine Jay
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“Minimalism is a tool to eliminate life’s excess, focus on the essentials, and find happiness, fulfillment, and freedom.” – Joshua Fields Millburn
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“While I went minimalist for the clutter free play room and clear kitchen counters, I stayed because underneath it all, I found myself.” – Rachelle Crawford
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“You might get 85 years on this planet. Don’t spend 65 paying off a lifestyle you can’t afford.” – Cait Flanders
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“Digital minimalism definitively does not reject age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.” – Cal Newport
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“Build up the confidence to break up with you – your fantasy self, so you can then embrace the real you.” – Ronald L. Banks
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“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” – Joshua Becker
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“The essence of philosophy is that we should live so that our happiness depends as little as possible on external causes.” Epictetus
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“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.” – Leo Babauta
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“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” – Bertrand Russell
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucious
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“A home with fewer possessions is more spacious, more calming and more focused on the people who live inside it.” – Joshua Becker
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“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” – Hosea Ballou
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“Declutter your mind, your heart, your home. Let go of the heaviness that is weighing you down. Make your life simple, but significant.” – Maria Defillo
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“Desiring less is even more valuable than owning less.” – Joshua Becker
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“In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.” – Plato
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“Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something.” – Nicholas Burroughs
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“The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.” – Gary Keller
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“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” – Francine Jay
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“Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.” – Danny Dover
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“The great thing about minimalism is that it is a choice.” – Melissa Camara Wilkins
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“Minimalism isn’t about removing the things you love. It’s about removing the things that distract you from the things you love.” – Joshua Becker
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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
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“Minimalism is a tool we use to live a meaningful life. There are no rules. Rather, minimalism is simply about stripping away the unnecessary things in your life so you can focus on what’s important.” – Joshua Fields Millburn
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“Minimalism is really about a reassessment of priorities, so you can remove unnecessary things from your life; get rid of things like possessions, activities, and relationships that do not improve or bring value to your life.” – Jane Andrews
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“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece, after all.” – Nathan W. Morris
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“When decluttering, ask yourself. Do I use this? And do I love this? Let those answers guide your decluttering process.” – Ashlynne Eaton
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“Owning less is better than organizing more.”
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“Maybe the life you’ve always wanted to live is buried underneath everything you own.”
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“The more I threw away, the more I found.” – Don DeLillo
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“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy.” – Richard Foster
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“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” – Joseph Brotherton
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“Minimalism is mental first.” – Ronald L Banks
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“Own less, experience more.” – Mariela Merino
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“Living a minimalist life helps you realize that you are enough as you are, and you don’t need to purchase anything to make you whole.” – Abundantly Minimal
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“We don’t buy things with money; we buy them with hours from our lives.”
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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. Schumacher
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“Love people, use things. The opposite never works.”
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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris
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“Your home is a living space not a storage space.”
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“Minimalism is an appreciation of space.”
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“The goal of minimalism, let’s remember, is not just to own less stuff. The goal of minimalism is to unburden our lives so we can accomplish more.”
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“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most the least.” – Bob Newhart
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“We discovered a new life – a simple life.”
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“Minimalism is believing there is such a thing as enough.”
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“Minimalism is asking why before you buy.” – Francine Jay
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“I’ve learned that minimalism is not about what you own; it’s about why you own it.” – Brain Gardner
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“Minimalism is not subtraction for the sake of subtraction. Minimalism is subtraction for the sake of focus.”
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“The less you own, the less owns you.”
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“Less is more.”
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“If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital.” – The Dalai Lama
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“Minimalism will make you a calmer person.”
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“Minimalism is beyond time. It is the stillness of perfection.” – Massimo Vignelli
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“Collect moments not things.” – Paulo Coelho
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“Maybe a life without is better than a life with.”
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“Having more and more won’t solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships. The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.” – Tenzin Palmo