10 Great Minimalist Quotes

1 “Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” 
- Joshua Becker

2 “It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” 
- Nathan W. Morris

3 "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." 
- Lao Tzu

4 "It is a preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly." 
- Bertrand Russell

5 "There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little." 
- Jackie French Koller

6 "Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants."
-Epictetus

7 "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
- Seneca

8 "Ultimately most of us come to believe there’s more value in a paycheck—and all the stuff that paycheck can buy us—than there is in life itself.” 
- Joshua Fields Millburn

9 “Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ...Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.” 
- Henry David Thoreau

10 “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” 
- Chuck Palahniuk