top of page
"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Minimalism quotes

"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."

"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."

"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist."

"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
Explore more quotes by Marty Rubin

"Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it."

"When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones."
bottom of page