Best 24 quotes in «minimalist quotes» category

The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of value only as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.

When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

As my energy changed and felt so much more free, open and exciting, new stuff started showing up. It became addictive — circulating energy. I stopped wearing my workout clothes every damn day. Working from home has its perks, but I was just dressing by default. There I was with a wardrobe full of clothes, yet I was wearing the same yoga pants, Jeaniius Tee, and hair scrunchie top knot every damn day. Time to wear the clothes I'd never worn, just because! I felt refreshed. Paying more attention to my clothes led to something else that shifted my energy level. I have always given away my clothes in bundles, because I just love the feeling of minimalism (and giving) but I was reaching a whole new level. I realized that every single thing in my home had its own energy-even my clothes. So if there was something sitting around that was not getting used or giving me any joy or excitement, it was time for it to go. I felt I had space for so many surprises to show up, and of course, they did.

A minimalist does not charge you for what he did. He charges you for what he did not do.

If the sunset and sunrise are for sale, I will buy it even it's expensive.

In the long run, success or failure will be conditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

In a world where everything revolves around money, I choose love.

Minimalism can help you find contentment and satisfaction and finally put meaning into your life. Just removing unnecessary things that do not bring any value to you will essentially open the door to a brand new perspective on living.

In my life, I've found that when I align my wants and my needs, less becomes more.

Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.

Minimalism is the new extra mile.

Sleeping in the simple small cottage rather than hotels... and under the billion stars is one of the breathtaking experience... pause, breath, nothingness moment is what gives meaning to my busy existence, that life is felt in silence, in that moment when what you see before you can no longer be conveyed with words...

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.