280 Quotes About Minimalism

Some people are blessed with a well-paid job, but are cursed with an irresistible urge to give others the impression that they are well paid, through things such as their clothes, car, and place of residence.

Be who you are, not who you wished to be.

Why spend time looking into a screen when you can

There is a correlation between how much we care about what others think of us and how much time, energy, and money we waste in a month.

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.

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.

Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?

We sometimes tell someone that they can’t throw money at everything, after we have caught (or got), or while we are catching (or getting), the money (or thing they have bought).

The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.