Marie Kondo Quotes

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what's right in front of me or who's right in front of me.

But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.

I don't focus on negativity, I focus on the good things.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

Don't meditate on what you don't have, and remind yourself what you do have.