Joshua Becker Quotes

#1. At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from

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#2. Our excessive possessions are not making us happy. Even worse, they are taking us away from the things that do. Once we let go of the things that don't matter, we are free to pursue all the things that really do matter.

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#3. Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

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#4. You don't need more space. You need less stuff.

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#5. Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world, the importance of developing the life skill of solitude, meditation, and quietly being with oneself can not be overstated.

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#6. Learn to enjoy things without owning them. Ownership is nothing, access is everything. Visit a library, a park, or a museum.

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#7. Owning less is better than organizing more.

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#8. I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten

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#9. We have too quickly bought into the lie that we'll be happier with more - and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

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#10. Teach your kids to reject blind conformity. Because when they do, rarely will they discover their heart desires more money, possessions, fame, or power. It will usually ask for something far more countercultural than those.

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#11. Mark Twain has been credited as saying, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." And I might add a third: the day you throw off any distraction and decide to pursue your purpose fully.

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#12. Often it is those who live quietly, modestly, and contentedly with a simple life who are the happiest.

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#13. We were never meant to live life accumulating stuff. We were meant to live simply enjoying the experiences of life, the people of life, and the journey of life - not the things of life.

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#14. If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.

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#15. Will Rogers once said, "Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."

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#16. Sometimes, minimizing possessions means a dream must die. But this is not always a bad thing. Sometimes, it takes giving up the person we wanted to be in order to fully appreciate the person we can actually become.

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#17. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.

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#18. Own less stuff. Enjoy more freedom. It really is that simple.

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#19. We are faced with 5,000 advertisements every day calling us to buy more.21

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#20. There is more joy to be found in owning less than can ever be found in organizing more.

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#21. The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.

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#22. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein

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#23. Living life is more enjoyable than managing and organizing stuff!

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#24. Realize that significance is not dependent upon success. Too many people fall into the trap of thinking, "Once I make it rich, I'll become significant." This is rarely the case. Begin striving for it now.

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#25. Purposefully owning less begins to take us out of the unwinnable game of comparison.

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#26. Your life is far too valuable to be wasted on the life that everyone else is choosing.

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#27. Simplicity slows down life and frees us from this modern hysteria to live faster. It finds freedom to disengage.

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#28. The American Dream has been defined in dollar signs and square footage.

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#29. Don't just declutter, de-own.

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#30. We own too much stuff. And it is stealing our joy.

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#31. Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.

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#32. Minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.

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