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Minimalism Quotes
"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"How many things can I do without?"
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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
31
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
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"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
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"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
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"The less you need, the more you live."
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"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."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
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"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
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"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"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."
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"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."
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"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
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"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."
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"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
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