Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
Socrates
The things you wear don’t make you beautiful; they accentuate the beauty that’s already there.
Colin Wright
At some point I realized that I wasn’t organizing my life; I was organizing my clutter.
Francine Jay
If you don’t have time to do what matters, stop doing things that don’t.
Courtney Carver
Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.
Brian Gardner
Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.
Leo Babauta
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
Drew Barrymore
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
Saying no is more important than saying yes.
Shane Parrish
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Plato
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
bell hooks
The problem: we put more value on our stuff than on our space.
Francine Jay
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok
When there’s nothing but humility, there’s nothing but spiritual oneness.
Frederick Lenz
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William Hazlitt
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.
Greg McKeown
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with”.
Analects 4.9 Confucius
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Seneca
You might get 85 years on this planet – don’t spend 65 paying off a lifestyle you can’t afford.
Cait Flanders
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity’s the real challenge.
Robert James Waller
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
Oscar Wilde
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
Marcus Aurelius
The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
Reinhold Messner
The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.
Lee L Jampolsky
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi
I will not say yes when my heart says no.
Courtney Carver
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Philip Wylie
I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
Sandra Cisneros
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
Leo Babauta
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest.
Marie Kondo
If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy, maybe getting rid of it will.
Joshua Becker
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it.
Alexander Sattler
Less stuff equals more freedom.
Maxime Lagacé
Never use a long word when a short one will do.
Louisa May Alcott
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou