“Clutter is postponed decisions.”

Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

My abortion was so long ago I didn’t think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn’t realized I didn’t forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.

Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

I don’t invest in rich kids’ businesses.

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

Really living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.

Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.

People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.

Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.

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.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions – and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.