Max Frisch Quotes

The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.

You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you don't need all the things you once thought you did--that it's really, well, convoluted. My life feels overblown sometimes, and I don't want it to be. I want it to be streamlined. So I'm living a much more unscripted life now than I have in a long time.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

I'll say life is simpler.

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.

I was originally a minimalist, so that's my foundation.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.