Marie Kondo Quotes

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

With renunciation life begins.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

There's beautiful things about tour - you're seeing the world, spreading music and I'm able to call that what I do. But it's about living lightly and abandoning things.

When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

When I shaved my hair, my friends asked me to keep it, maybe make my own wig out of it, but I wanted the old hair to go; it was not mine. I wanted to let go.

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way I'm always the new girl in the whorehouse.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.