Minimalism Quotes

“You needn't settle for a mediocre life just because the people around you did.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Happiness comes from within, from inside yourself, from living a meaningful life.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Unless you contribute beyond yourself, your life will feel perpetually self-serving. It’s okay to operate in your own self-interest, but doing so exclusively creates an empty existence. A life without contribution is a life without meaning. The truth is that giving is living. We only feel truly alive when we are growing as individuals and contributing beyond ourselves. That’s what a real life is all about.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Minimalism is a tool we use to live a meaningful life. There are no rules. Rather, minimalism is simply about stripping away the unnecessary things in your life so you can focus on what’s important”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Five Values that allow us to live a meaningful life: 1. Health 2. Relationships 3. Passions 4. Growth 5. Contribution”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Success = Happiness + Constant Improvement”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Ultimately, minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can focus on life’s most important things—which actually aren’t things at all.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“We are not our stuff.  We are more than our possessions. Our memories are within us, not our things. Our stuff weighs on us mentally and emotionally. Old photographs can be scanned. You can take pictures of items you want to remember. Items that are sentimental for us can be useful to others. Letting go is freeing.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“We only have a finite amount of time on this earth. It can be spent accumulating monetary wealth, or it can be spent in a meaningful way—the latter of which doesn’t necessarily preclude someone from the former, but the relentless pursuit of riches doesn’t lead to a meaningful life.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“We weren’t downsizing, we were uprising.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Your identity should come from your meaningful life, not from how you earn a paycheck.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Without a vision, you will settle for whatever is in front of you. Ergo, you need a distinct vision of what you want your relationships to be-- what you want your relationships to look like. If your vision is compelling enough, you'll do anything to make it a reality.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Minimalism looks different for everyone because it’s about finding what is essential to you.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Real happiness comes from within.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“When we appreciate others for who they are, not who we want them to be, then, and only then, will we understand.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“The people who are rebelling meaningfully  don't buy a lot of stuff. —David Foster Wallace”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Careers are dangerous because people invest so much of themselves into their careers that they establish an identity and a social status based upon where they work and what they do for a living.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“What’s important is that you find people doing what you want to do, that you learn from them, that you soak up their knowledge, and that you take massive action.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“The truth is someone is earning a living doing the thing you’re passionate about—doing the thing you obsessively love. But they just got lucky! Well, maybe some of them got lucky, and maybe some were at the right place at the right time, but even luck has a recipe for continued success. Plus, there are thousands of people pursuing your passion (and making a good living from it) who didn’t get lucky, who didn’t achieve stardom or get everything they wanted overnight. They put in a ton of work, experienced debilitating failures and losses, and obsessively followed that beacon of passion until they were able to call it their full-time mission. Why not learn from those people? If you want to learn how to turn your passion into your mission, the fastest, most efficient way is to emulate someone already doing it. It’s called modeling,”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Thankfully, there are better ways to answer the What do you do? question. We have found people are programmed to ask this question without giving it any thought; it’s not much different from asking How are you doing? So the best thing to do is to get the other person to actually think about the mindless question they just posited. When presented with this question, the two of us tend to answer with another question, such as, “That’s a rather expansive question. What do you mean by it?” or “That’s an expansive question; perhaps we could discuss it over a cup of coffee.” Another way to answer this question is by stating what you’re passionate about, instead of spouting off what your vocation is.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Take action.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Take notes.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Read more than once.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Si la mejor versión de tu persona se muestra ante el público, lograrás sacar lo mejor de los demás.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalismo

“People tend to designate one of three labels to their work: job, career, or mission.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

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― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalismo

“Minimalists search for happiness not through things, but through life itself; thus, it’s up to you to determine what is necessary and what is superfluous to your life.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“Happiness comes from within, from inside yourself, from living a meaningful life. A”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“the implied question isn’t What do you do? which by itself is rather expansive and could encompass thousands of things (I volunteer at soup kitchens, I work at Walmart, I enjoy fishing on the weekends, I exercise five days a week, I drink water, etc.); the implied question is What do you do for a living? or Where do you work? which is vastly different from the question itself. This “innocent” question actually says, I will judge you as a person by how you make your money, and I will assign a particular social status to you based on your occupation.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

“That is, you’re not happy with your current situation, but you’re comfortable enough that you don’t want to sacrifice your comfort today for something that could potentially be less comfortable tomorrow, and thus you don’t change.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life