Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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