Цитаты из книги Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living

My feeling is that minimalists are people who know what’s truly necessary for them versus what they may want for the sake of appearance, and they’re not afraid to cut down on everything in the second category.

Perhaps the most important reason for getting out there and engaging with the world is that the experiences you gain through your actions can never be taken away from you. Unlike our material possessions, our experiences are inside ourselves, and we can take them with us any place we go. No matter what may happen to us,…

You’ll feel a much richer sense of contentment by building your experiences rather than buying items, because your experiences resist comparison with others

So maybe it’s natural that we find our own originality when we strip away all the things that distract us.

If someone actually gets upset when they find out that you’ve thrown away something that they gave you in the past, it means they’re not as concerned about your relationship in the present. In that case, you may want to distance yourself from that person anyway. I know I wouldn’t want to become someone who can only convey…

All those stores out there pay good sums of money to secure space so they can stock all sorts of goods for us, and they manage their items with care. Convenience stores welcome us around the clock. Yosumi suggests we should not think of these places as shops where we buy goods, but instead as our warehouses where we go to…

you might say to yourself that you’ll get to it someday after things settle down. But we all know that as long as we’re ruled by our dear old possessions, that day will never come.

It’s tough to come up with an exact definition of a minimalist as there are bound to be elements that we’ll end up missing, but my definition of a minimalist is a person who knows what is truly essential for him- or herself, who reduces the number of possessions that they have for the sake of things that are really…

Unless we can see ourselves reflected from another person's perspective, it isn't possible for us to really know our worth.