Minimalist Quotes

• I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

  Kathy Reichs

  Accused

  "Meet The Brains Behind "Bones"". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Music, Cleaning, Honest

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Unnecessary, Burden, Possession

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

  Jackie French Koller

  Two, Littles, Way

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• 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

  Thanksgiving, Being Happy, Gratitude

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

  Francis Jourdain

  Simple, Simplicity, Rooms

  "The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life" by Leo Babauta, 2009.

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  The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

  "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.

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• I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

  John Cale

  Mean, Want

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• But how could you live and have no story to tell?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stories, Existentialism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

  Bob Newhart

  Quiet, Introvert

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• You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

  Albert Camus

  Understanding, Experience, Experience And Learning

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Balance, Holding On

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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