12 Quotes Tagged: minimalism

Minimalism is about creating space to live simply and meaningfully; it’s about living intentionally.

Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?

Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

A well-used minimum suffices for everything.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

Face-to-face conversation is the most human — and humanizing — thing we do. Fully present to one another, we learn to listen. It's where we develop the capacity for empathy. It's where we experience the joy of being heard, of being understood.

Confronting the endless desire that is at the heart of our individual overconsumption and global excess is the only intervention that can ward off the daily call to consume that bombards us on all sides.