“Just because you dispose of something does not mean you give up past experiences or your identity.”

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

Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.

To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.

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

Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.

Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value.

One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.

Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure

To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.

I may have been disposable to you but don’t mistake me as replaceable.