Minimalism doesn't avoid possession. Only excess. The less you own, the less owns you. Owning less is better than organizing more. Eliminate instead of organizing. Active decluttering makes room for your true treasures and clarifies your values. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need. Storage is a way of warehousing the past. If you don't love it or use it, it is clutter. Decluttering is self-care. Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is everything that doesn't support the better self.

People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can't fathom.

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

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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

Minimalism isn't about removing things you love. It's about removing the things that distract you from the things you love.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

Minimalism is the radical notion that you can have a better life with fewer things.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.

Minimalism is the intentional cultivation of emptiness to make room for meaning.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Minimalism is the art of knowing what is essential and having the courage to eliminate the rest.

Freedom is the greatest possession. Simplicity is the greatest method. Detachment is the greatest strength.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

The more you know what you really want, the less you want what you don't need.

Minimalism is the radical pursuit of less but better in every area of life.

Your home is living space, not storage space.