“There is no need to buy dividers or any other gadget. You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house. The most common item I use is an empty shoebox.”

Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.

Through the process of selecting only those things that inspire joy, you can identify precisely what you love and what you need.

If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.

Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.

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.

All you need to do is take the time to sit down and examine each item you own, decide whether you want to keep or discard it, and then choose where to put what you keep.

Don’t forget that the god of tidying up is always on your side as long as you are committed to getting it done.

The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

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.

I have yet to see a house that lacked sufficient storage. The real problem is that we have far more than we need or want.

A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum

If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.

The real tragedy is to live your entire life without anything that brings you joy and never even realize it.

Letting go is even more important than adding.

Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?

Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.

Music is the soundtrack to your life. It’s not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It’s not the same anymore. It will never be the same.

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.

Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.