Tiny Houses Quotes

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.