I would like to collect some inspiration quotes on simple lifestyle, free of clutter and minimalism. Please share if you have any. It could be anything that serves as an uncluttering tool (e.g. a place for everything and everything in its place) to an insightful suggestion on living a minimal life.
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I like this quote from Albert Einstein: "Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Karen
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Hans Hoffman was actually an artist and this quote is about his use of paint (I think). However, it has meaning for almost every aspect of life.
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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I like another Einstein quote - Make everything as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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Use it up,
Wear it out;
Make it do --
Or do without!I got that from an LDS church handbook on building up a household's "year's supply." I'm not Mormon, and for a lot of other reasons I don't keep a "year's supply" of anything (except maybe Scotch) in my home, but I love the sentiment behind that quote.
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Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Seton
I like the one above, because it's simple!
This next one is one I needed to read.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I really like this one, from William Morris:
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."Posted 2 years ago # -
Henry David Thoreau "Simplify, simplify"
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“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common – this is my symphony.” – William Emery Channing
"My riches consist, not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants." ~ J. Brotherton
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@ zchristy - I really like the Channing quote. It's really beautiful!
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I don't know who said it first, but I like:
"The more things you own, the more things own you."
I you look at how you spend your time, it proves to be more true than many of us would care to admit.Posted 2 years ago # -
If you keep something that you're not using...then no one else can use it, either.
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These are great, and I've found a few favourites as well. Keep them coming!
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Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd WrightI feel quite oppressed by the furniture we have.
Matali CrassetLife is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose. Jean Fleming
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
The opposite of simplicity, as I understand it, is not complexity but clutter. Scott Russell Sanders
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From a comment made by "Stephanie" to a post called Uncluttered Aphorisms on Unclutterer.com (April 2009):
"Present Me is tired of holding onto Future Me’s crap. Future Me will just have to deal with it."
I like it because I used to hold on to things just in case I needed them sometime in the future.
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"Present Me is tired of holding onto Future Me’s crap. Future Me will just have to deal with it."
i really like this one, i used to have this problem to. i would have something and have no use for it right now or no place to put it and my mom would always tell me to pack it away for later which drove me nuts.
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o i LOVE this one: "Present Me is tired of holding onto Future Me’s crap. Future Me will just have to deal with it."
i think i will let this one guide me tomorrow, thank you.
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I loved that "Present Me..." which is why I remembered it - and also pasted it into a Word document. I didn't want to forget it.
Thanks "Stephanie".
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This is from one of my favorite books, "The Primrose Way" by Jackie French Koller:
"There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little."
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Socrates may be old but he nailed it ;) : “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
-Socrates, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Love these posts BTW....Posted 2 years ago #
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