Best 91 quotes in «clutter quotes» category

Take time for the clearance of the mind, preparing for adherence to perseverance for the journey of another thousand miles.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't.

The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.

The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.

The lack of mindfulness often makes us carry the unnecessary possessions, stale ideologies and rotten relationships along, which unnecessarily clutter our lives and consciousness, and stagnate our growth.

There's memory clutter, which reminds you of an important person, achievement, or event from your past. I think memory clutter often gathers in the homes of people with some degree of depression. And then there's "I might need it one day clutter, in which people hang on to stuff in anticipation of an imagined future. Among these folks, I've noticed a recurring theme of anxiety...Maybe it's possible that the stuff we own and obsess over is the physical manifestation of the mental health issues that challenge our minds. --p29.

The point is, you need to distinguish between what honestly moves you and what the world is telling you should melt your heart. If something doesn’t reach you on a personal level, let it go. It’s hard enough dealing with everything that does.

We are much more likely to be drawn to a messy bookstore than a neat one because the mess signifies vitality. We are not drawn to a bookstore because of tasteful, Finnish shelves in gunmetal gray mesh, each one displaying three carefully chosen, color-coordinated covers. Clutter -- orderly clutter, if possible -- is what we expect. Like a city. It's not quite a city unless there's more than enough.

The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

What if illness - the stripping away of our health, our dreams, our understanding of who we are and what our future holds - is really a gift - God offering Himself to us unencumbered by all the noise, all the things that clutter our hearts and so easily fill our days? Because what if that quiet, stripped-away space is where hope is found? Where God leans in close whispering love to our weary souls until it becomes as familiar as the beating of our own hearts?

Touch things. I’ve said it again and again. Look. Always, always look. Assuming what is in a box or at the back of a shelf does no good whatsoever. But assuming is the hardest thing for me to fight in my war against clutter. I see a mass of stuff and assume it’s full of emotions. I assume every last item in the pile, box, or closet will rip my heart right out of my chest. Every single item will represent a part of life I’m not ready to accept is over.

When every possession is special, none of them are.

When you are filled with inner clutter, the chaos reflects in your personality as obsessiveness, confusion, disorganisation, broken speech patterns, insomnia, indecisiveness, and lack of direction. When your home and world are in disrray, you can't relax. It takes more energy to be in chaos because you have to keep track of all the junk. Eventually exhaustion sets in. When you honestly look at clutter and ask if it's necessary in your life, buried emotions come to the surface.... Toss what's unnecessary so that you can finally relax, and your remaining possessions will have a clear place to land.

You don't have to face every skeleton in your closet before you can make some room in there!

Why do we romanticize the virgin spaces? Land where no one’s walked or built or puked or fought over its uses? Land never once in its existence beholden to anyone or anything, forming timelessly, inured of us. We want it to seduce the cluttered world of today out from under us.

Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

You're the boss of clutter, not the other way around.

Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.

Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

I hate clutter. I can't stand it.

I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

It's always something

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.

Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.