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• 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.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hard Times, People, Giving

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• When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen.

  Vicki Robin

  Letting Go, Self, Opening Up

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• We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.

  Thomas Keating

  Past, Love Is, Light

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• I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.

  Craig Finn

  Moving, People, Decision

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Home, Exit, Needs

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

  Julia Cameron

  Uplifting, Hands, Helping

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Book, House, Tree

  Jane Hirshfield, “Tree”

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• Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

  Anne Lamott

  Life Is, Perfectionism, Shows

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.

  Karen Kingston

  Underestimate, Effects, Never Underestimate

  Karen Kingston (1997). “Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui”, Broadway

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• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  Nancy Horan

  Memories, Past, Order

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Details, Maps

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• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

  Nate Berkus

  Thinking, Space, Furniture

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• Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Confusion, Simplicity

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• No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Office, Special

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• To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.

  Francis Crick

  Nature, Lying, Science

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• Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change.

  Nick Saban

  Focus, Ongoing, Care

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• Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

  Henry Ford

  Teamwork, Men, Mind

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• Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Simple, House, Support

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Action, Our Lives

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Overcoming, Wonder

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• Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Habitat, Behavior, Natural

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• It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

  Larry Merchant

  Break Through, Trying, Attention

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• The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Issues, Effort, Doe

  "Test Yourself: Do You Have Clutter Mentality?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Mean, Two, People

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing your clutter can completely transform your entire existence.

  Karen Kingston

  Space, Life Is, Aspect

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.13, Harmony

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