Quotes About Tidying

#1. After all, our possessions very accurately relate the history of the decisions we have made in life. Tidying is a way of taking stock that shows us what we really like.

Marie Kondo

#2. tidying with what a couple of the other pianists had called her obsessive-compulsive neatness. Well, could she help it if she liked the sheet music alphabetized? And then put in numerical order according to the year it was written?

Elizabeth Bevarly

#3. The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.

Merlin Mann

#4. The true purpose of tidying is, I believe, to live in the most natural state possible. Don't you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don't bring us joy or things that we don't really need? I believe that owning only what we love and what we need is the most natural condition.

Marie Kondo

#5. My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

Marie Kondo

#6. A short time after tidying, their space is a disorganized mess. The cause is not lack of skills but rather lack of awareness and the inability to make tidying a regular habit.

Marie Kondo

#7. The important thing in tidying is not deciding what to discard but rather what you want to keep in your life.

Marie Kondo

#8. People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.

Marie Kondo

#9. After all, what is the point in tidying? If it's not so that our space and the things in it can bring us happiness, then I think there is no point at all.

Marie Kondo

#10. tidying must begin with discarding regardless of personality type.

Marie Kondo

#11. Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

Mason Cooley

#12. About tidying up a toy box, you should let your kids experience the selection process by touching all of their toys. It's also important how they throw away their toys. They can earn a stronger sense of valuing things when they throw things away with respect and appreciation.

Marie Kondo

#13. I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll start, but I'll leave things unwashed in the sink. It has been known to irritate people somewhat.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#14. I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.

Marie Kondo

#15. Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of "mother.

Marie Kondo

#16. We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.

Lisa Lutz

#17. No matter how messy your house may be, tidying deals with physical objects. No matter how much stuff you may own, the amount is always finite.

Marie Kondo

#18. Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

Marie Kondo

#19. And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order.

Marie Kondo

#21. A lot of people agree that tidying is connected to how we live, and even though, outside of Japan, houses might be bigger, people have more things than they need.

Marie Kondo

#22. How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

S.I. Hayakawa

#23. You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.

Marie Kondo

#24. Tidying is a way of taking stock that shows us what we really like. The

Marie Kondo

#25. There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

C.S. Lewis

#26. What was it that motivated you to tidy in the first place? What do you hope to gain through tidying? Before you start getting rid of things, take the time to think this through carefully. This means visualizing the ideal lifestyle you dream of.

Marie Kondo

#27. Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

Diana Wynne Jones

#28. I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'

Marie Kondo

#29. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Jamaica Kincaid

#30. Tidying is the act of confronting yourself; cleaning is the act of confronting nature

Marie Kondo

#31. My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away. My clients are stunned when I say this, bu there is nothing more annoying than papers. After all, they will never inspire joy, no matter how carefully you keep them.

Marie Kondo

#32. What was worth saving? Not as much as you'd anticipated, once you got into the spirit of paperlessness. Pile up those mine carts with fool's gold. The thing that's worth keeping is the thing you do next.

Nick Paumgarten