Here are some of the best quotes on being minimalist and the importance of simplicity in life. We have carefully compiled these sayings and quotes for all of you to draw some learning and motivation from.
“But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.” – Sandra Cisneros
“The simplest things are often the truest.” – Richard Bach
“The intention of voluntary simplicity is not to dogmatically live with less. It’s a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.” – Duane Elgin
“One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that 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
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” – Doris Janzen Longacre
“Make things as simple as possible but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein
“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
“Any half-awake materialist well knows – that which you hold holds you.” – Tom Robbins
“Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.” – Harold Kushner
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh(Minimalism Quotes)
“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: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.” – The Dalai Lama
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” – Elise Boulding
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” – Vernon Howard
“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
“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 non-essentials.” – Lin Yutang
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” – Edwin Way Teale
“Less is more.” – Mies Van Der Rohe (Minimalism Quotes)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” – Bertrand Russell
“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.” – Francis Jourdain
“We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.” – Anna C. Brackett
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.” – Baha’u’llah
“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.” – George Sand
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” – Henry David Beecher
“Live simply so that others may simply live.” – Elizabeth Ann Seton
“My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” – Joseph Brotherton
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.” – Lope de Vega
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” -Hosea Ballou
“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” – Wu-Men
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.” – Thomas a Kempis
“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one’s needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.” – Saint Basil
“Poverty is my pride.” – Muhammed(Minimalism Quotes)
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” -Epictetus
“Sell your possessions and give to the poor.” – Jesus Christ
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca,
“The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.” – John the Baptist
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” – Epicurus
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucious
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” -Buddha
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” – Coco Chanel
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”- William Morris
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” – Frederic Chopin
Best Simplicity quotes about life
“Love people, use things. The opposite never works.” – The Minimalists
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.” – Joshua Becker
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” – Plato
“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex…” – Steve Jobs
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.” – Marie Kondo,
“Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength.” – Vince Lombardi
“Your home is living space, not storage space.”- Francine Jay
“The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman
“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.” – Winston Churchill
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein
“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I like simplicity; I don’t need luxury.” – Francis Ford Coppola
“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.” – Neil Degrasse Tyson
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – General Colin Powell
“Don’t make the process harder than it is.” – Jack Welch (Minimalism Quotes)
“We have one hardware organization. We have one software organization. It’s not like we’re this big company with all these divisions that are cranking out products. We’re simpletons.” – Tim Cook
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.” – Joshua Reynolds
“Tis the gift to be simple, Tis the gift to be free…” – Joseph Brackett
“Simplicity is a choice, a discrimination, a crystallization. Its object is purity.” – Le Corbusier
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
“There are two ways to be rich: one is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” – Jackie French Koller
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” – William Golding (Minimalism Quotes)
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”- Nathan W. Morris
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” – Joshua Becker Minimalism Quotes
“A home with fewer possessions is more spacious, more calming, and more focused on the people who live inside it.” – Joshua Becker
“Outer order contributes to inner calm.”- Gretchen Rubin
“Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor – it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.”- Peter Walsh
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Anonymous
“You don’t need more space. You need less stuff.” – Joshua Becker, The More of Less
“Having a simplified, uncluttered home is a form of self-care.”- Emma Scheib
“I don’t say no because I am so busy. I say no because I don’t want to be so busy.” – Courtney Carver
“Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes.”- Terry Guillemets
“There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” -Jackie French Koller,
“Three rules of work: out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
Few more Best Simple living quotes (Minimalism Quotes)
I hope all of these simple living quotes inspire and motivate you to declutter your thoughts, home and simplify your life.
“Minimalism is not about having less. It’s about making room for more of what matters.”- Minimalist Quotes
“Minimalism isn’t about removing things you love. It’s about removing the things that distract you from the things you love.”- Joshua Becker
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” – Oscar Wilde
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”- Socrates
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”- Melody Beattie
“The best things in life aren’t things.” – Anonymous (Minimalism Quotes)
“Simplicity involves unburdening your life, and living more lightly with fewer distractions that interfere with a high quality life, as defined uniquely by each individual.” -Linda Breen Pierce
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”- Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.” – Charles Péguy
Which one of these is your favourite minimalism quotes?
