“This is what we want from everything we let into our lives: a good fit, so we can achieve full mastery of our tools, so we can milk all the potential out of everything that we have. If we can do that, we can truly appreciate our things.”

—Frank Chimero

Hmmm…

“Appropriatism” sounds like just the thing. How much stuff I’ve got that I really don’t actively appreciate is kinda embarrassing. The more things we accumulate (be they physical, digital or mental) the less likely it is that our brains and psyches will be able to comprehend and integrate them into our lives. Interesting thoughts…

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”

–Plato

“A major lesson I’ve learned (which I had to teach myself) is that it’s OK to cut out negative people from your life. Everyone has a right to their opinion, but people don’t have a free pass to be heard by you, particularly if their manner of expression is consistently unpleasant or unproductive.”

–Matt Gemmell, from his blog

“What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

Things that we think are liberating can ultimately become restrictive, and things that we initially think are controlling can sometimes give us a sense of comfort and security.”

— Hillary “Tinyhouse”, from a post called “10 Guiding Principles for Living Tiny“ on the Small Living Journal website.

“Less is not necessarily more… Just enough is more.”

— Milton Glaser

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski