Quotes About Clutter

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

You don't have to put on everything in the closet.

There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.

people with little sewage systems in their minds are

wasn't in fact possible to strip life of its clutter for the simple reason that life was clutter.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to 'clean' it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

I scrambled to pack my things, glad I owned so little.

I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.

Every time I come over, you are moving things off the chairs so I can sit. There are a lot of crates here." Donovan just smiled. "It's a system," he insisted. "I know where everything is…" "Yes," Amethyst nodded gravely. "He knows it's in one of those piles somewhere…

Jasper looked around, saw the cleared couch and the piles of books, paper, and detritus that had been cleared off of it, grinned, and dropped onto it. "Quick, Pap," he said, "before that crap starts fighting back and smothers us.

to recall a name or incident felt almost wearyingly physical, like clearing out an attic.

We sit as a practice for how we will act throughout the day. Mindfulness, however, involves more than sitting. It is moment by moment non-clinging to ego. It is the simplicity that results when we experience reality without the clutter produced by the decorative arts of ego.

The floor was littered with paper cups and candy wrappers and cigarette butts and other teenager droppings. I saw a used condom under my shoe.

As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.

He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard.

Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter.

and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

The room was so neat and tidy it made me feel quite depressed...I do not allow myself to repine about what cannot be helped; but I remembered earlier Decembers, under the cloudless blue skies and brilliant sun of Egypt. As I stood morosely contemplating the destruction of our cheerful domestic clutter, and recalling better days, I heard the sound of wheels on the gravel of the drive. The first guest had arrived. Gathering the robes of my martyrdom about me, I made ready to receive her.