Quotes about Minimalism
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
— Steve Jobs
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
— Jack Kerouac
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
— Kerry Washington
In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.
— Kathleen Norris
Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.
— Camron Wright
But I don't want more things than I need, either.
— Isabel Allende
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
— Henry David Thoreau
Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.
— Anonymous
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
— GK Chesterton
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
— Thomas a Kempis