Decluttering is an act of self care! A simpler life gives way to less mental clutter, more inspiration, and a happier existence.
But that doesn’t mean decluttering is always easy. Here are some of our favorite quotes about decluttering to inspire you as you purge your home and life of excess stuff.
50 inspiring quotes about decluttering.
1. I make myself rich, by making my wants few. – Thoreau
2. Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships, and bad habits. – Peter Walsh
3. Presence over possessions.
4. You don’t need more space. You need less stuff. – Joshua Becker
5. Simplify to amplify.
6. Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. – William Morris
7. It’s not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. – Seneca
8. The less we own, the less we have to worry about. – Joshua Becker
9. Curate, don’t accumulate.
10. Clutter is stuck energy. Clear your clutter to make way for change in your life. – Karen Kingston
11. The more you know, the less you need. – Yvon Chouinard
12. Let go to grow.
13. Instead of working so hard to make ends meet, work on having fewer ends. – Courtney Carver
14. Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions. – Barbara Hemphill
15. Create room for possibility.
16. Memories live in your heart, not your garage. – Mia Lee
17. Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. – Will Rogers
18. Practice wanting what you already have.
19. 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
20. Decluttering is a conversation with your past self.
21. Your home is living space, not storage space. – Francine Jay
22. The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t. – Marie Forleo
23. Stop hoarding your ‘someday’ projects. If it mattered, you’d have done it by now.
24. Too often people will overcomplicate the process of decluttering their belongings because it’s easier to create a complex organization system than to actually let things go. – Mia Danielle
25. Less stuff, more life.
26. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein
27. The less you have, the more you can give. – Mother Teresa
28. Under the influence of clutter, we may underestimate how much time we’re giving to the less important stuff. – Zoë Kim
29. Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all. – Nathan W Morris
30. 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
31. If you can’t find a “home” for an item, that’s probably because it doesn’t belong in your house anymore. – Mia Lee
32. Just because we have the space doesn’t mean we need to fill it with stuff. – Zoë Kim
33. Junk drawers: Where good intentions go to die and random screws live forever.
34. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
35. Your stuff doesn’t love you back—stop being so loyal to it.
36. In removing the non-essential, you reveal the essential. – Greg McKeown
37. Stop keeping baggage from your past in the suitcase of your present.
38. Excessive stuff is a substitute for living. – Marie Kondo
39. Let go of yesterday’s junk to make space for today’s treasures.
40. Outside order contributes to inner calm.
41. Sometimes the hardest clutter to release is the stuff tied to the person you thought you’d become.
42. Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes. – Terry Guillemets
43. Every home has a junk drawer. It’s where hope and clutter have a mysterious rendezvous. – Marie Kondo
44. The things you keep should be a reflection of who you are today, not a museum of who you were.
45. You’re not lazy or disorganized. You’re just living in a world designed to fill our spaces with stuff we’re convinced we need, while juggling a schedule that barely leaves time to breathe, let alone organize. – Mia Lee
46. Decluttering isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave souls who dare to face the lies they’ve been telling themselves.
47. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann
48. The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are. – Mother Teresa
49. Being organized isn’t about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person. It’s about living the way you want to live, but better. – Andrew Mellen
50. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step–or in this case, a single item removed from the path. – Mia Lee
How to start decluttering.
Hopefully one or two of those quotes resonated with you, and now you’re feeling inspired to get rolling on your decluttering journey!
You can start with reading our ultimate decluttering guide, or downloading this 100 item checklist of things to declutter from your house today:
