"You can't have it all. Where would you put it?
Steve Wright
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"my tastes are simple, I only like the best"
this was on a poster i bought and put on the wall of my dorm room during my first year at MSU.
i didn't know myself all that well way back then, but i did know my taste.Posted 1 year ago # -
Less is more.
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Stop making excuses and get rid of it!
IT'S JUST STUFF. JUST STUFF.
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They are often wise, noble sentiments like Socrates “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
Alternatively, "Don't put off decluttering today for tomorrow you might be dead; and who wants their relatives sorting through their underwear drawer?" Jackthetiger 2011
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Found on Zen Habits...
‘There must be more to life than having everything!’ ~ Maurice Sendak
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LOL, Jack!
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I actually believe this one: "The secret of a happy life is wanting what you have."
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Good ones, people. Lately I've been trying to live by the famous Nike saying "Just do it!" and not create intermediate steps, but finish something entirely. Although Jack's is really one of my greatest motivators ever since I realized I could die a zillion horrible deaths (horrible because my mom would start sorting through my embarrassment of a home).
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All I can think of is the T-shirt I've seen that said, "Save the Planet. I need someplace to keep all my stuff."
Or just go with Thoreau - "Simplify, simplify, simplify."
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jbeany: my favorite moment in "Cheers" (sitcom) is when Diane quotes that Thoreau adage, and Coach asks quizzically, "Couldn't he have said it just once?"
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I heard this at someone's retirement party @ work and loved it - "The secret to being happy is not having the best of everything, but making the best of everything you have".
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about relationships:
Choose your love;
Love your choice.Posted 1 year ago # -
'Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. But not express'd in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.'
This, to me, is reminiscent of the Oscar Wilde quote mentioned earlier - 'My tastes are simple: I am always satisfied with the best.' To me, it is much better to spend more to get a better quality item, rather than lots of cheap stuff. That way (a) I only need a single one or a small number and (b) if I look after things they tend to last better.
Terry Pratchett put it quite well, but I can't find the quote. It goes something like 'It had always struck him as unfair that rich people could afford to spend twenty dollars on a pair of boots, which would keep their feet warm and dry probably for a couple of generations, but poor people had to make do with one-dollar boots which wouldn't last more than a few months before needing to be replaced. So a poor man could spend forty dollars on lots of pairs of thin, cheap boots to last the same time as the rich man's single pair of twenty dollar boots - and the rich man would still have warmer, dryer feet.'
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Just remembered another one - often incorrectly attributed to Colin Chapman, but actually from a gent called William Bushnell Stout.
'Simplicate and add more lightness'.
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Paul: I like the Terry Pratchett -- it's referred to as t eh"boots theory of socio-economic injustice" and is from "Men at Arms":
"But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten year's time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."
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I love the Oscar Wilde quote about "satisfied with the best".
I also love:
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
I think that is originally a prayer, but since I'm an atheist I just skip the God part - I find these words very useful anyway.
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@susanintexas - I had a feeling it was from Men At Arms, but just couldn't find the darned thing! Maybe I should have googled harder...
:)
Terry does put it beautifully, though!
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This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man!
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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have.
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