Quotes about Minimalism
This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.
— Steve Jobs
The simplest solution is always best.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
— Seneca
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
— Rick Warren
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
— Robert Brault
Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
— Anais Nin
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.
— Steve Jobs
The old man drank his coffee slowly. It was all he would have all day and he knew that he should take it. For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch.
— Ernest Hemingway