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Clinging leaves clawmarks on your heart.

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Consume products, not people.

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There’s nowhere in the world that the world is not.

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Without clear values, a kindhearted sacrifice oxidizes into bland placation.

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If you deeply desire to misunderstand someone, you will find a thousand ways to misinterpret them.

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When you let go of everything, everything remains.

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A minimalist boundary is anything that keeps the clutter out.

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Your material possessions are made of matter, but they don’t matter the way your family matters.

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Clinging to pleasure is the path to pain.

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Certainty is necessary for comfort, but uncertainty is essential for a meaningful life.

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Minimalism is the amplification of spaciousness.

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Things are not the important things.

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Freedom does not exist without the willingness to walk away.

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Every expectation adds another bar to your prison cell.

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The path to peace is not paved with pleasure.

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Minimalism isn’t about counting the things you own; it’s about owning only the things that count.

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It is better to hurt a man’s feelings with the truth than to pacify him with a lie.

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You are forever defied by the things you renounce.

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The bigger the ego, the smaller the now.

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Clutter enters the home through the same door that intentionality exits.

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A cluttered bedroom leaves no room for life’s most intimate moments.

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We think the easiest way to declutter is to organize, but the opposite is true: the simplest way to organize is to declutter.

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A logo is not a proxy for personality.

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An ideal livingroom creates enough room for living.

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There are no refunds for misspent time.

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In the wrong hands, a tool transforms into a weapon.

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It is possible to jettison partisanship without letting go of politics.

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Hope is not achieved; it is buried beneath your cynicism.

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Letting go of control is the simplest way to regain control.

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What’s sacred isn’t hurried; it’s held.

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Three ways to understand and minimize chronic pain.

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What is a “toxic superfood” and how are these foods making us sick?

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Once you realize the memories are not inside the things, you are free to let go.

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Overthinking is the wellspring of suffering.

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Keep simplifying, keep simplifying, keep simplifying…

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Keep simplifying, keep simplifying, keep simplifying…

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Love is not transactional, but relationships are.

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Happiness contains three main ingredients.

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Leave it on the shelf today if you don’t want to declutter it tomorrow.

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On a long enough timeline, everything is dust.

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