Inspirational Quotes
  
 

Learn to get past some of the imperfections
-it's ok to make mistakes.

"You don't have to do a perfect job,
"Just a good enough job."
-Dr. David Tolin, Compulsive Hoarding expert

Affirmations from Clutterers Anonymous
Uplifting Quotes from ClutterLESS Recovery

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
Robert A. Cook

You can’t have everything, where would you put it?
-Steven Wright

If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes.
-Unknown

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
One can only collect a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

-Anne Morrow Lindberg

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Alone you can do it.
But it can’t be done alone.

-Sandra Felton

The only way around is through.
-Robert Frost

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Dr. Denis Waitley

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.

-Theodore Roosevelt

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.
But the Self is not something that one finds.
It is something one creates.

-Thomas Szasz

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-William Faulkner

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Henley

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure
until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

-John Burroughs (1837-1921 Author)

Your life is filled with possibility.
Reach high, look forward and never give up.

The world is waiting for you.

-Marian Wright Edelman

There are many ways of going forward,
but only one way of standing still.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
-Dr. Phil McGraw

Change is inevitable. You can’t avoid it.
The best thing to do is accept change, learn from it, and use it to your BEST advantage.
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

-Helen Schucman

Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.

-Wayne Dyer (American Author)

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
-Les Brown

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom
-Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881 Scottish Author)

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
-Anonymous

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions,
but with the future of present decisions.

-Peter Drucker

It is what we think we know already
that often prevents us from learning.

-Claude Bernard (1813-1878 French Physiologist)

Striving for excellence motivates you;
striving for perfections is demoralizing.

-Harriet Braiker

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
-Alfred N. Whitehead

The past does NOT equal the future!
It is the moment of our decisions that our destinies are created!

-Anthony Robbins

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 Lebanese Poet)

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a life
on what you intend to do.

-Liz Smith

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
-David Weinbaum

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
-Allen Lakein

We must all suffer one of two things:
the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
-George Hegel (17701831 German Philosopher)

Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try.
-Edward T. Kelly

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?
-Vincent Van Gough

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, expecting a different result.
-Albert Einstein

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
-Earl Nightingale

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-Seneca

Effort only fully releases it reward after a person refuses to quit.
-Napoleon Hill

Real success in life means the individual’s conquest of himself; it means how he has bettered himself not how he has bettered his fortune.
The great question of life is not “What have I?, But What am I?

-William George Jord

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don’t have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
-Greg Anderson


The Weight Of Objects
Clearing Your Space For Change

In life, we tend to have an easier time acquiring possessions than we do getting rid of them.

Just as we harbor emotional baggage that is difficult to let go of, our lives can tend to be filled with material objects that we may feel compelled to hold on to.  Most people are not conscious of how much they own and how many of their possessions are no longer adding value to their life. They fiercely hold on to material objects because this makes them feel secure or comfortable.

While it's true that the ownership of "stuff" can make you feel good for awhile, it seldom satisfies the deep inner longings that nearly everyone has for fulfillment and satisfaction. It is only when we are ready to let go of our baggage and be vulnerable that it becomes possible to recognize the emotional hold that our possessions can have on us.

It's not uncommon to hold on to material objects because we are attached to them or fear the empty spaces that will remain if we get rid of them.Giving away the souvenirs from a beloved voyage may feel like we are erasing the memory of that time in our life. We may also worry that our loved ones will feel hurt if we don't keep the gifts they've given us.

It's easy to convince ourselves that unused possessions might come in handy someday or that parting with them will cause you emotional pain.However, when your personal space is filled with objects, there is no room for anything new to enter and stay in your life.  Your collection of belongings may "protect" you from the uncertainties of an unknown future while keeping you stuck in the past. Holding on to unnecessary possessions often goes hand in hand with holding on to pain, anger, and resentment, and letting go of your material possessions may help you release emotional baggage.

When you make a conscious decision to fill your personal space with only the objects that you need or bring you joy, your energy level will soar.  Clearing your personal space can lead to mental clarity and an improved memory.  As you learn to have a more practical and temporary relationship to objects, positive changes will happen, and you'll have space to create the life that you desire.

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