100 Best Decluttering Quotes To Empower You In 2024
How can decluttering change your life?
These good decluttering quotes will motivate and push you. And if you need any more encouragement, consider the following:
In a world that shouts “more is better,” the truth is that, often, less is better.
- People have more self-control in all areas of life when not surrounded by clutter.
- Getting rid of stuff eliminates housework, giving you more time to do things you love.
- People in clutter-free spaces are more productive while being less anxious, irritable, and distracted.
- You save money having less stuff (and make money by selling what you don’t need)
Start Decluttering Your Home Quotes
First these quotes will help you get your home in order. Pronto.
1. “Life truly begins after you have put your house in order.” ― Marie Kondo
2. “For me, a calm house equals a calm heart equals a calm life.” ― Erica Layne
3. “Owning less is better than organizing more.” – Joshua Becker
4. “Having a simplified, uncluttered home is a form of self-care.” ― Emma Scheib
5. “Your home is living space, not storage space.” –Francine Jay
6. “When home feels out of control, no matter what the reason, unsettledness and anxiety can seep in, and then the chaos becomes internal as well as external.” –Myquillyn Smith
7. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” –William Morris
8. “A home with fewer possessions is more spacious, more calming, and more focused on the people who live inside it.” –Joshua Becker
9. “Imagine yourself living in a space that only contains things that spark joy.” –Marie Kondo
10. “Make room for what matters, let go of what doesn’t. It’s that simple.” –Robert Tew
11. “The best way to enjoy your favorite things is to only own your favorite things.” –Unknown
12. “I want to walk into my home and not feel stress and tension. I want to walk in and feel glad to be home. Instead of minding the junk and clutter, I want to simplify and mind the things that matter.” –Anora O’Connor
13. “Your home should be the antidote to stress, not the cause of it.” –Peter Walsh
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Decluttering Quotes About Too Much Stuff
Next, these decluttering sayings are all about simplifying, streamlining, and clearing out the excess.
14. “Outer order contributes to inner calm.” ― Gretchen Rubin
15. “Decluttering isn’t easy, but once you start getting things out, it gets easier and easier.” ― Steve Maraboli
16. “The more stuff I donated, the more I was able to breathe. The more trash I threw away, the more weight I felt lifted. The more stuff I took out of our house the more I was able to see a new life. The more uncluttered I lived, the more joy I found.” –Zina Harrington
17. “The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are.” ― Mother Theresa
18. “You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are full of yesterday’s clutter.” –Louise Smith
19. “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” –Nathan W. Morris
20. “Today is the day you rid yourself of anything that distracts from your best life.” –Joshua Becker
21. “There are two ways to have enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” –G.K. Chesterton
22. “When you are overwhelmed, tired and stressed, the solution is almost always less. Get rid of something. Lots of somethings.” –Courtney Carver
23. “It’s better to have extra time on your hands and extra money in your pocket than extra stuff in your closet.” ― Joshua Becker
24. “You don’t need more space. You need less stuff.” –Joshua Becker
25. “The long term peace of less surpases the short term thrill of more.” The Clearing Concept
26. “I’ve learned that minimalism is not about what you own, it’s about why you own it.” –Brian Gardner
27. “If you have more than enough, then give some away.” –Unknown
28. “Getting rid of perfectly good items may seem wasteful, but that’s not where we went wrong. It was wasteful to purchase it. Now we are just acknowledging it.” –Rachelle Crawford
29. “You can have your space or you can have your stuff. You can’t have both.” –The Home Edit
30. “Never ‘organize’ what you can discard.” –Joshua Becker
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Inspirational Decluttering Quotes for Better Life
These decluttering quotes will uplift and motivate you to keep going – for the sake of finer quality of living.
31. “Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor, it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.” ― Peter Walsh
32. “The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” ― Socrates
33. “Clearing clutter – be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual – brings about ease and inspires a sense of peace, calm and tranquility.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD
34. “Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.” ― Eleanor Brown
35. “I function properly, feel better, do better, look better and treat others better when there’s no clutter.” ― Handling Home Life
36. “Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.” ― Barbara Hemphill
37. “The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.” –Joshua Becker
38. “What I know for sure is that when you declutter–whether it’s your home, your head or your heart–it is astounding what will flow into that space that will enrich you, your life and your family.” –Peter Walsh
39. “The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” –Marie Kondo
40. “If you want to improve your life immediately, clean out a closet. Often what we hold onto holds us back.” –Cheryl Richardson
41. “Decluttering is infinitely easier when you think of it as deciding what to keep, rather than deciding what to throw away.” –Francine Joy
42. “Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.” –Leo Babauta
43. “Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.” –Marie Kondo
44. “If your stuff isn’t serving you, it won’t be serving you any better packed away in a box somewhere.” –Melissa Wilkins
45. “Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” –Joshua Becker
46. “We cannot buy a meaningful life. We can only live it.” –Unknown
47. “While minimalism will not solve all of life’s problems, it will create the space to better deal with them.” –Anthony Ongaro
48. “Simplify your life, simplify your mind, simplify your surroundings.” –The Clearing Concept
49. “Once you’re able to let go of unwanted stuff from your life, your world gets so much brighter.” ― Sam Gilbert
50. “Noticing what you love will help you release what you don’t.” –Courtney Carver
51. “Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.” –Marie Kondo
Motivational Quotes About Clutter
52. “Clutter is stuck energy.” ― Karen Kingston
53. “Most of us who are weighed down by mental clutter–the to-do lists and calendar events cataloged in our brains–find a shocking amount of relief when we cut back on physical clutter. If your environment is less chaotic, your mind will be too.” –Erica Layne
54. “At its heart, clutter is a lack of peace.” ― Kathi Lipp
55. “Clutter is the physical reflection of a disorganized mind.” ― Joshua Becker
56. “Clutter impacts how we see ourselves and others see us. It’s not just aesthetics. Decluttering is an important part of looking after yourself.” –Jack Stevens
57. “Clutter causes stress, and clutter is one of the main barriers of productivity.” ― Charisse Ward
58. “Clutter is the enemy of creativity.” ― Jeff Goins
59. “Clutter is not just physical stuff, it’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits.” ― Eleanor Brownn
60. “Clutter is the physical manifestation of fear that cripples your ability to grow.” ― H.G. Chissell
61. “Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes.” –Terri Guillemets
62. “Under the influence of clutter, we may underestimate how much time we’re giving to the less important stuff.” –Zoe Kim
63. “Get rid of clutter and you may just find it was blocking the door you’ve been looking for.” –Katrina Mayer
64. “Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination.” –Christina Scalise
65. “Organized clutter is still clutter. Get rid of it.” –Unknown
66. “External clutter is internal clutter on display.” –The Cleaning Concept
*Try the 30 day declutter challenge to give yourself a jumpstart!*
Funny Decluttering Quotes And Sayings
67. “You never know what you have until you clean your room.” ― Anonymous
68. “I love Pinterest. It’s electronic hoarding without the clutter.” ― Anonymous
69. “The less you have, the less you have to clean.” – Anonymous
70. “The truth is, most of us don’t have an organization problem, we have an own-too-much-stuff problem.” –Zoe Kim
71. “If you lost it, would you buy it again?” –Fumio Sasaki
72. “Imagine the life waiting for you under all your clutter.” –Unknown
73. “‘Later’ is the best friend of clutter.” –Peter Walsh
74. “I don’t want my legacy to be storage containers of stuff.” –Courtney Carver
75. “Opening your closet should be like arriving at a really good party where everyone you see is someone you like.” –Amy Collins
76. “Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.” – Shannon L. Alder
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Quotes About Decluttering the Mind
Finally, these decluttering quotes remind you that it isn’t only about your physical realm. The decisions you make and inputs you receive every day affect your life profoundly.
77. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”- Hans Hofmann
78. “Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.”
– Randy Armstrong
79. “The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” – Prasad Mahes
80. “Live light. Offload internal and external baggage for peace within and peace without.” – Laurie Buchanan
81. “There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” – Jackie French Koller
82. “You’ll never get organized if you don’t have a vision for your life.” – Linda L. Eubanks
83. “If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.” – Arianna Huffington
94. “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.”
— Wayne L. Misner
95. “If we want more healing and peace in the world, let us each start with our homes, our relationships, our mindsets, and ourselves.” – Lisa J. Shultz
96. “There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.” – Byron Katie
97. “When we throw out the physical clutter, we clear our minds. When we throw out the mental clutter, we clear our souls.” Gail Blanke
98. “Don’t let anyone rent space in your head unless they are a good tenant.” – George Couros
99. “Having a clear mind and a clear space allows you to think and act with purpose.” – Erika Oppenheimer
100. “If you have a clear mind… you won’t have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.” – Phil Jackson
What is the 80/20 rule for decluttering?
You use 20% of what you own 80% of the time. That means that 80% of your belongings don’t see much or any use. There are a lot things that you can let go of. And now is the best time to start!
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