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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Media seem to get off easy to stuff the "sheeple" with canned and standardized messages that they can digest at ease in their comfort zone, without leaving any bitter aftertaste. ("Don't leave! Stay with us!")”
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![Sarah Dessen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1372181953i/2987._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.”
― Along for the Ride
― Along for the Ride
“I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Anna Quindlen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1387414577i/3500._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.”
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![Fredrik Backman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1493098924i/6485178._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“Because people like stuff. New stuff, even newer stuff. Stuff to replace old stuff with and old stuff that is so old it becomes retro stuff and starts being used instead of new stuff. Let me tell you, it's fun stuff. Sometimes we have to get rid of stuff to make room for new stuff. And then we start to miss the old stuff so much that we have to build new stuff that pretends to be the old stuff. Like when we put TV screens on the treadmills at the gym and then play videos of trees on them so that we feel like we're running through the forest. Yes, I know what you're thinking. Why don't you just go running into the forest to begin with? and it's completely ok to wonder that. You don't know any better. But you see, we had to cut down the trees in the forest in order to build a highway so we could drive our cars to the gym. And yes, I can already see what you're thinking: Why did you have to cut down the trees? But hey, what did you want us to do? They were standing in the middle of the highway. It's complicated stuff to explain.”
― Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
― Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
“The mindless accumulation of vast mountains of stuff is unforgivably dumb. Mindful curation of meaningful possessions can be a great source of joy.”
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![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Owning less creates an opportunity to live more.”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
![George Eliot](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596202587i/173._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“... it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. His school studies had not much modified that opinion...”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“I have owned, I confess, thousands of objects. Even if today most of them are nothing more than memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire. Acquisition, being, for some mysterious reason, the most important act, like a gambler throwing dice. The idea of speculation has never crossed my mind, nor of "decoration." Collecting is for me both essential and completely useless.”
― A Few Collectors
― A Few Collectors
![Helen Fisher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1231365893i/6641._UY200_CR13,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We keep stuff in order to hang on to what's important, but it's an illusion ... These objects are not bridges to the past, they're bridges to memories of the past. But they are not the past.”
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“Being rich is having time. The less stuff you own the more time you have for what truly matters.”
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![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“What if the problem isn't that we don't own enough stuff or aren't managing our stuff well enough? What if the problem is that we're living in the homes that advertisers and retailers want us to have instead of the homes that deep down we really want and need?”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“In psychological theory, the endowment effect is our tendency to consider an object more important than it really is simply because we own it. This explains why it's so hard for us to get rid of our stuff.”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“A minimizing accelerator: removing duplicates”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Never in history have human beings had so much stuff inside their houses. One estimate puts the number of items inside the average American home at three hundred thousand.”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Expect this stage [our storage, hobby, and play areas] of minimizing to stir up emotions and recall memories both sweet and bittersweet. You may encounter old photo albums whose pages you haven't turned in decades, mementos of celebrations long gone by, trophies you formerly sweated to win, personal objects you remember being in the possession of loved ones you've lost, the wedding dress you wore..., the stuffed bunny your daughter fell asleep clutching throughout infancy, and art supplies you once envisioned yourself creating beauty with. The experience at times may warm your heart and at times may fill you with sensations of regret, loss, or failure.
Don't back away from these emotions. Work your way through them. This might be just the opportunity you need to process the past and position yourself better for the future.”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
Don't back away from these emotions. Work your way through them. This might be just the opportunity you need to process the past and position yourself better for the future.”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
![Joshua Becker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389916934i/4397208._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Does the memory associated with an object cause you to smile? Your reaction may show you that you need the object, not for utilitarian purposes, but for purposes of the heart. But then again it may not. Maybe all you need is this one last moment to savor the nostalgic charm that the object inspires. Your life has moved on- maybe it's time for the object to do the same. Remember, just because something made you happy in the past doesn't mean you have to keep it forever.”
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
― The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.”
― A Few Collectors
― A Few Collectors
“The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.”
― A Few Collectors
― A Few Collectors
![Steven Magee](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1444680307i/4733010._UY200_CR52,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There is weird stuff going on, far more than just COVID-19 and it is coming out of the changing environment.”
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“Sharing the ways to advance the bright light of inspiration and stick to deliver merry heart.”
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