#Minimalism Quotes

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”

“Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.”

“Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep passing them on. I don't hang onto them myself at all. I have very few needs like that.”

“The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.”

“He is the richest who is content with the least.”

“I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.”

“Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'”

“With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.”

“What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”

“What a lot of things I don't need.”

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

“How many things I can do without!”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.”

“Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.”

“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.”

“In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

“Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.”

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“We need much less than we think we need.”

“The rule is to carry as little as possible.”

“Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.”

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

“Simplify, simplify, simplify.”

“I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.”

“To have little is to possess.”

“Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.”

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

“Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!”

“It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.”

“We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.”

“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

“I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.”

“This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.”

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

“For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.”

“I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.”

“My greatest skill has been to want but little.”

“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.”

“Simplify, simplify.”

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

“Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.”

“There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”

“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

“I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.”

“One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."”

“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”