Best 91 quotes in «clutter quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

When every possession is special, none of them are.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 prefer a cluttered workspace.

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

I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.

It's always something

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

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.

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

I hate clutter. I can't stand it.

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.

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

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

Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

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

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

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

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

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

There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into 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.

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

With more [distribution] channels, it's important to have 'must-have' content and brands that cut through the clutter.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

As I worked I continued to be a bit terrified in the back of my mind that it would be awful in the end, a big mishmash of nothing in particular, and there I would be, having wasted a whole week of my life destroying things I wanted to keep. But I should have trusted the long history of women who've come before me making rag rugs from everything that wasn't nailed down because it wasn't like that at all. Instead it was like a big, incredible tapestry that just happened to--if you could decipher it--tell a million little stories from my life. I could look at it and see my old lace slip and the girls' party dresses and my high school rainbow tie-dyes, the Irish kilt and the Halloween clown pants and so many, many other things. It was all in there somewhere. I felt like the miller's daughter in the fairy tale, the one who stays up all night spinning straw into gold. But who needs yellow metal, anyway? The was way better.