"The first step to getting of what you want, is having the courage to get rid of what you don't want."
~ Becoming Minimalist

"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts."
~ BrianTracy

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
~ Helen Keller

"To have more than you've got, become more than you are."
~ Jim Rohn

"Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'."
~ Eckhart Tolle

"Only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important."
~ Steve Jobs

"One never needs to explain why a game failed - failure is the default state. What is important is figuring out why a game succeeds."
~ Soren Johnson, founder of Mohawk Games

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
~ Will Rogers

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"
~ Joe Namath

"Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it."
~ Jennifer Lopez

"If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that."
~ Joshua Becker

"It's your road...and yours alone...Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."
~ Brian Miller

"It’s better to live alone; there’s no friendship with a fool. Live alone and skilfully, carefree like an elephant in the forest."
~ Dhammapada

"Find meaning and solace in whatever you are doing right now. This is the beginning of enlightenment."
~ Daily Zen

"If you wash your dishes in mindfulness, you are in the Kingdom of God."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."
~ Pema Chodron

"Silence can never be misquoted."
~ B. D. Schiers

"I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go."
~ Sheng-yen

"The practice is to find silence in all the activities you do."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal."
48 Laws of Power

"You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here."
~ Zen proverb

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as who you become by achieving your goals."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love."
~ Ajahn Brahm

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
~ Peter Drucker

"There are three ways in which the ego will treat the present moment: as a means to an end, as an obstacle, or as an enemy."
~ Eckhart Tolle

"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"When sitting in meditation, say, 'That's not my business!' with every thought that comes by."
~ Ajahn Chah

"Your home is an extension of your energy field. This is why practices like cleaning your home, rearranging furniture, organizing your closet, and getting rid of objects that are cluttering your space can have a profound impact on your mind, body and spirit."
~ Maryam Hasnaa

"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy."
~ NIGHTBIRDE

"Instead of working so hard to make ends meet, work on having fewer ends."
~ Courtney Carver

"If you don't have time for what matters, stop doing things that don't."
~bemorewithless.com

"There are two types of tired: one that requires rest, and one that requires peace."
~ Unknown

"Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable."
~ Leonard Cohen

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others want you to be, rather than being yourself."
~ Shannon L Adler

"Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace."
~ Dalai Lama

"Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick."
~ Hippocrates

"If you don’t fit in, then you are probably doing the right thing."
~ Unknown

"Wanting less is a better blessing than having more."
~ becomingminimlist.com

"I don't say no because I'm so busy. I say no because I don't want to be so busy."
~ Courtney Carver

"In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself."
~ Deepak Chopra

"Be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the M is silent."
~ Becoming Minimalist

"If it doesn't add to your life, maybe it doesn't belong in your life."
~ unknown

"Much of what upsets you is just made up; it exists only in your head."
~ Daily Zen

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words."
~ Carl Jung

"The goal is not to overcome your fear. The goal is to act dispite your fear."
~ T Harv Eker

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work… What, I wonder, do these busy folks get done?”
~ Søren Kierkegaard

"When you don't attach your happiness to anyone or anything, you become free."
~ Beau Taplin

"How something ends up never depends on how much you worry about it."
~ Courtney Carver

"Somebody is mad at you right now because you picked peace over drama and distance over disrespect."
~ @minathemodelll

"And the moon said to me - my darling daughter, you do not have to be whole in order to shine"
~ Nichole McElhaney

"There is a profound pleasure in the power of acknowledging that you don’t need to get everything you want... and your children don’t need to get everything they want either."
~ Annie Raser-Rowland (Frugal Hedonism)

"Minimalism can be more than just removing physical possessions. It is also about deciding what is important in life - and removing the distracions that keep you from it."
~ Joshua Becker