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Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.

Marie Kondo

We amass material things for the same reason that we eat—to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress.
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Material Reason Satisfaction Stress
We may think that we have stored things to suit our behavior, but usually we have unconsciously adjusted our actions to match where things are stored.
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Action Behavior Store Thinking Unconscious
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.
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Clear Effort Possible Reason
When deciding how to spend your time, remember: Don’t trade an activity you’d love to pursue for a reward you don’t value.
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Activity Decision Pursue Remember Reward Time Value
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
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Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True
The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.
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Life Live Question Yourself
Clutter also adversely affects health. According to a study by scientists at UCLA, being surrounded by too many things increases cortisol levels, a primary stress hormone.
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Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.
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Cleaning Reduce Space
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
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Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
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Excitement Important Live Past Wonderful
The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.
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Complete Drama Exception Live

Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.

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Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.

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