Erica Layne Quotes

This is the beautiful secret of minimalism: It may seem like it’s about stuff, but once you’ve cut through the clutter and adopted a new frame of mind, you learn that it’s barely about ‘the stuff’ at all.

Too many of us are over-committing to others and under-committing to ourselves. Let’s stop living at a frantic pace if our hearts are pulling us to a slower, more focused way of life. Let’s start honoring our own needs for rest, self-care, and balance. Let’s recommit to our own vision and finally listen to the voice inside.

When you know your life matches your values, it’s easier to let other people’s perceptions fall to the side.

You don’t have to compete against yourself or anyone else. You can do family life your way—and find immeasurable comfort and relief in knowing that your way is right for you.

You don’t need to organize more; you need to own less.

We live in a culture where our worth seems to be measured by our busyness.

too many of us are burdened by our belongings, our commitments, our calendars, and our mental loads. In this state, we can’t slow down and enjoy our lives because we’re too busy managing them.

Sometimes it takes a sense of dissonance, disconnect, or tension for us to realize what our real values are. This feeling, although unsettling, is a gift—a call to realign our lives with our hearts.

This is the beautiful secret of minimalism: It may seem like it’s about the stuff, but once you’ve cut through the clutter and adopted a new frame of mind, you learn that it’s barely about “the stuff” at all.

I began fiercely protecting our family time—our adventures to the beach, our Saturday hikes, our outings to the local airport to watch the small planes land. It didn’t happen all at once, but in a thousand ways, minimalism was changing my life for the better.

I want to look forward instead of backward, to see what’s in front of me and to not believe that everything good has already happened to me.

the beautiful secret of minimalism: It may seem like it’s about the stuff, but once you’ve cut through the clutter and adopted a new frame of mind, you learn that it’s barely about “the stuff” at all.

You are not supposed to be happy all the time. Life hurts and it’s hard. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because it hurts for everybody. Don’t avoid the pain. You need it. It’s meant for you. Be still with it, let it come, let it go, let it leave you with the fuel you’ll burn to get your work done on this earth.

a practice that’s leaving us with unprocessed emotions, depleted bank accounts, and overfilled homes.

I wasn’t thinking about what I left behind, only that right then I had everything I needed. I knew as long as we had each other, we would be okay.

I’m now choosing every day to throw out the manual I had for how others should act—to stop waiting for them to notice my efforts and to instead own that I do the things I do because I want to.

Let’s find the courage to live the lives we were meant to, not the lives others expect of us.

Bottom line: If our lives are burdened with clutter, we’re giving the best of ourselves away to the things that matter least.

Clutter contributes significantly to your mental load.