Quotes about Minimalism

If you own a rug you own too much.

Part of the beauty of the monastic life lies in the ability to live simply with few desires and to consume only what you need.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

Make life easier for you.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

Less is only more where more is no good.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.