“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.”

Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.

Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.

Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.

It’s far more important to adorn your home with the things you love than to keep it so bare it lacks anything that brings you joy.

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.

Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.

Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.

Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.

The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.

In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.

From the moment you start tidying, you will be compelled to reset your life. As a result, your life will start to change.

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.

If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.

As for you, pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life.

He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don’t see the Taliban coming back in any way.

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Discard first, store later.

Discard everything and keep of your simple.