“People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.”

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

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.

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.

Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.

A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.

It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.

I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.

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.

The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.

Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy

When people throw stones at you, don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century

Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.

Like a garbage truck, we need a ‘lie-truck’ which will collect lies from everyone’s houses every morning, even every hour!