black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Marie Kondo

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

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

Happiness Life Reality Realize Tragedy
A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.
MARIE KONDO

Awareness Important Lifestyle Person Perspective Segregation
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.
MARIE KONDO

Activity Clutter Company Difference Energy Meaning Mission Personal Precious Professional Time
The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.
MARIE KONDO

Complete Drama Exception Live
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.
MARIE KONDO

Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
MARIE KONDO

Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
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.
MARIE KONDO

Activity Decision Pursue Remember Reward Time Value
Even if we remain unaware of it, our belongings really work hard for us, carrying out their respective roles each day to support our lives.
MARIE KONDO

Aware Carry Hard Work Live Ourselves Remain Respective Role Support
Our parents demanded that we clean up our rooms, but they too, had never been trained in how to do that. When it comes to tidying, we are all self-taught.
MARIE KONDO

Cleaning Demand Ourselves Parents Teaching Training
Everyone needs a sanctuary.
MARIE KONDO

Need One Liner Sanctuary
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
MARIE KONDO

Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
MARIE KONDO

Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True
Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
MARIE KONDO

Effort Need Reduce Storage
In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.
MARIE KONDO

Act Balance Essence Home Live People Possession Restore
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.
MARIE KONDO

Choice Decision Discard Need Time Yourself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marie Kondo Quotes