Joshua Fields Millburn

“We’re taught to work foolishly hard for a non-living entity, donating our most precious commodity—our time—for a paycheck.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD DEBT. Some”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Ultimately most of us come to believe there’s more value in a paycheck—and all the stuff that paycheck can buy us—than there…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Addition by subtraction.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“We feel safe around authentic people, as if we could reveal to them our deepest, darkest secrets, as if we could trust…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Real happiness, however, comes from who we are—from who we’ve become. Real happiness comes from within. Likewise, discontentment is also a result…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Truthfully, though, most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Now, before I spend money I ask myself one question: Is this worth my freedom? Like: Is this coffee worth two dollars…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Honesty is a gift we can give others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity,” Dr. Sam…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“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…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Five Values that allow us to live a meaningful life: 1. Health 2. Relationships 3. Passions 4. Growth 5. Contribution”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Live a Meaningful Life, which uses the concepts of minimalism”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“The first jump—that’s the most difficult part. Because you’ll always have some people who say things like, ‘Why would you do that?’…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Understand, every moth is drawn to light, even when that light is a flame, hot and burning, flickering, the fire tantalizing the…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“I used to reach for my phone every few minutes no matter where I was—even at the urinal. Even when the phone…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Happiness, as far as we are concerned, is achieved through living a meaningful life, a life that is filled with passion and…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“There is more joy and fulfillment in pursuing less than can be found in pursuing more.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Likewise, the passive tasks—Facebook, email, television, etc.—are easy. And they are fine in small doses (I’ll likely check my email for thirty…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“Minimalists don’t focus on having less, less, less. Rather, we focus on making room for more, more, more: more time, more passion,…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“These days, I have little desire for new material possessions (although that baleful yearning still lingers from time to time), but I…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“But there’s no grand reward for passivity, just pain and regret and an emptiness that’s hard to articulate.”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“TV costs us a lot more than money. Time. TV viewing has robbed me of my time—my most precious asset. Even”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“It’s liberating to not have a TV. Television sucks so much life out of our lives. It takes our money, our time,…

— Joshua Fields Millburn