The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.
– Albert Einstein
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
One should use common words to say uncommon things.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
I’m one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don’t mean much to me. They’re beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they’re ultimately not important.
– Tom Ford
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
– Ray Kurzweil
Owning less is better than organizing more.
– Joshua Becker
It’s okay!
To repeat clothes.
Not to upgrade your phone.
To buy second hand items.
To live in a simple home.
It’s okay to live a simple life. :)
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
– Lin Yutang
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
– Confucius
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
– Albert Einstein
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
– George Santayana
If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy, maybe getting rid of it will.
– Joshua Becker
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
– John Cudahy
People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.
– Gary Hopkins
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
– Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
– Lao Tzu
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
– Francis Jourdain
Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.
– Andy Stanley
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
– Edward de Bono
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures.
– Tom Peters
Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter.
– D.H. Mondfleur
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.
– Albert Einstein
It’s not a good deal if you don’t need it.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
– Stendhal
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
– Bruce Lee
Simplicity is about deciding what’s important to you and focusing on that before anything else.
– Chelsea Walters
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
– William Morris
Simplicity is the trademark of genius.
– Sravani Saha Nakhro
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe