Joshua Fields Millburn · 119 pages
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“You needn't settle for a mediocre life just because the people around you did.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Success = Happiness + Constant Improvement”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“We weren’t downsizing, we were uprising.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Unless you contribute beyond yourself, your life will feel perpetually self-serving. It’s okay to operate in your own self-interest, but doing so exclusively creates an empty existence. A life without contribution is a life without meaning. The truth is that giving is living. We only feel truly alive when we are growing as individuals and contributing beyond ourselves. That’s what a real life is all about.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“The people who are rebelling meaningfully don't buy a lot of stuff. —David Foster Wallace”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“We only have a finite amount of time on this earth. It can be spent accumulating monetary wealth, or it can be spent in a meaningful way—the latter of which doesn’t necessarily preclude someone from the former, but the relentless pursuit of riches doesn’t lead to a meaningful life.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Real happiness, however, comes from who we are—from who we’ve become. Real happiness comes from within. Likewise, discontentment is also a result of who we’ve become.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Honesty is a gift we can give others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity,” Dr. Sam Harris wrote in his book, Lying. He continued by stating, “Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Five Values that allow us to live a meaningful life: 1. Health 2. Relationships 3. Passions 4. Growth 5. Contribution”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“We feel safe around authentic people, as if we could reveal to them our deepest, darkest secrets, as if we could trust them with anything. And when we get to know these people on a deeper level—when we establish a connection with them—it’s refreshing to discover they are who we thought they were, that beneath the surface they are authentically themselves.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“None of us is perfect, but we all have the capacity to be authentic, to remove the pretense and the facade from our repertoire and just be authentically ourselves, not the people we think we’re supposed to be.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“So you’re left scratching your noggin, wondering how to convert them to your singularly valid viewpoint, which can be mind-numbingly frustrating. Don’t worry, though, you needn’t get on the same page right way; you need only understand you both have your reasons for being on separate pages.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Are we constantly improving our fitness? Are we happy with our progress?”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD DEBT. Some”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Careers are dangerous because people invest so much of themselves into their careers that they establish an identity and a social status based upon where they work and what they do for a living.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“We are not our stuff. We are more than our possessions. Our memories are within us, not our things. Our stuff weighs on us mentally and emotionally. Old photographs can be scanned. You can take pictures of items you want to remember. Items that are sentimental for us can be useful to others. Letting go is freeing.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“The best juicer we’ve found is the Omega J8004 Masticating Juicer.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“To have the tallest building in town, you must tear down everyone else's.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“Unless you contribute beyond yourself, your life will feel perpetually self-serving. It’s”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
“When we appreciate others for who they are, not who we want them to be, then, and only then, will we understand.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, quote from Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
Joshua Fields Millburn
Born place: Dayton, The United States
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“But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.”
― Eileen Wilks, quote from Mortal Danger
“Where's your fiancé?" Trevor asks casually. I stiffen slightly, and Trevor steps back a little. "Well," I breathe. "Um, we sort of broke up."
Trevor's eyes widen a fraction, an eyebrow raising in surprise. He stops dancing, but none of the other couples seem to notice, too caught up in being in love. "Why?" Trevor whispers, still holding my hand, his arm still around me.
My hearts thumps harder, slower, each beat waiting for my answer as I stare into Trevor's eyes. I open my mouth to give some answer, some casual it-didn't-work-out kind of thing. But instead, I hear myself say something else entirely.
"Because he wasn't you.”
― Kristan Higgins, quote from Just One of the Guys
“People who really want to make a difference in the world usually do it, in one way or another. And I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world. People who want to make a difference get frustrated along the way. But if they have a particularly stressful day, they don’t quit. They keep going. Given their accomplishments, most of them are shockingly normal and the way they spend each day can be quite mundane. They don’t teach grand lessons that suddenly enlighten entire communities; they teach small lessons that can bring incremental improvement to one man or woman, boy or girl. They don’t do anything to call attention to themselves, they simply pay attention to the everyday needs of others, even if it’s only one person. They bring change in ways most people will never read about or applaud. And because of the way these world-changers are wired, they wouldn’t think of living their lives any other way.”
― Katie J. Davis, quote from Kisses from Katie: A Young Woman's Journey of Faith A Remote Village A Love without Limits
“After turning it in her mind for some time, she came to the conclusion, that she had been taking part in a great drama, which was, in itself, but one great system of robbery and wrong. 'Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.' True, she had not received labor from others, and stinted their pay, as she felt had been practised against her; but she had taken their work from them, which was their only means to get money, and was the same to them in the end. For instance–a gentleman where she lived would give her a dollar to hire a poor man to clear the new-fallen snow from the steps and side-walks. She would arise early, and perform the labor herself, putting the money into her own pocket. A poor man would come along, saying she ought to have let him have the job; he was poor, and needed the pay for his family. She would harden her heart against him, and answer–'I am poor too, and I need it for mine.' But, in her retrospection, she thought of all the misery she might have been adding to, in her selfish grasping, and it troubled her conscience sorely; and this insensibility to the claims of human brotherhood, and the wants of the destitute and wretched poor, she now saw, as she never had done before, to be unfeeling, selfish and wicked.”
― Sojourner Truth, quote from Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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