Minimal Living Quotes

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

I do live a simple existence.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

I'm good at clearing things out. If I haven't worn something for a while, I'll give it away to charity.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Less mess, less stress. That's my rule! If you don't stay on top of decluttering, it can get out of control. I maintain as much as possible. I'll do seasonal edits and decide what we can toss or donate. If we don't love it, need it or haven't used it in the past year, it's gone.

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

I don't know my telephone number or anything like that, but when I do have to make a call, I just pull my body over to the side and squat. I don't want to be one of those people who are on their phone all the time.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

I actually live very, very simply.

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.