Minimalism

• Seneca

  I am content with few, content with one, content with none at all.

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• Endowment effect: over-valuing things because you already own them.

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• Seneca

  You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

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• Seneca

  No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

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• Seneca

  It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.

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• Seneca

  Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

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• Epictetus

  Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.

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• Jeff Sutherland

  Getting rid of waste is a business’s first priority.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  I do not regard a man as poor if the little which remains is enough for him.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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• Seneca

  However much you possess, there’s someone else who has more, and you’ll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to the exact extent to which you lag behind him.

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• Epictetus

  He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.

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• Seneca

  When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk, he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Most of what we say and do is not necessary, and its omission would save both time and trouble.

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• Chris Sacca

  The shit you own does own you – every single object, at some point, has commanded some of your attention.

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• Eleanor Brownn

  Clutter is not just physical stuff; it’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits, clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

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• Peter Mallouk

  You spend the first 20 years of being rich accumulating all of this stuff, and then you’ll spend the next 20 years trying to get out of one thing after another to simplify your life.

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• Seneca

  It was nature’s intention that there should be no need for great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy

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• Zen

  Hogejaku – “let go of everything”

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• Epictetus

  Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  Free yourself from money.

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  Discard what you don’t need.

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• Theodore Roosevelt

  Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  Arrange your room simply.

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• Seneca

  If you don’t regard what you have as enough, you will never be happy even if you rule the entire world

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• Seneca

  It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  Pare down your belongings.

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• Cicero

  If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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