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Now that's a good quote!

that is a great quote! Imagine how much less stuff everyone would have if they thought that way. We'd only have things that they truly love or truly need because otherwise the responsibility wouldn't be worth it.
I am going to try and keep this in mind whenever I want or think I need something and take my time to find the perfect thing or learn to accept not having it.

A good quote...but can you fix the link so that it takes you to the quote itself?

so true. i just did some major purging in my home and it feels amazing. this may need to be a mantra from this point forward.

i'll be living in a different country for 3 1/2 months this summer and subletting my apartment to a friend.

this is my time to really work hard on creating more living/storage space for him.

thank you for this quote!!!

Every responsibility is a possession....

"Don't let your things own you."

SARAH: THERE WAS SOMETHING I WAS LOOKING FOR.

JUNKLADY: AH, DON'T TALK NONSENSE.

JUNKLADY: EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD YOU'VE EVER CARED ABOUT IS ALL RIGHT HERE.

So true. I purchased my first home about a year ago. It has been exhausting. As a renter, I would change things, paint, decorate, but I didn't have (or feel that I had) the responsibility for alot of things. Of course, it doesn't help that I bought a bit of a fixer and want to change everything. I am happy that I bought a home, but never realized the responsibility that came with ownership.

There's a song that a friend's cousin used to sing, and all I can remember is that it had the words

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"Buy, buy" says the sign in the shop window...
"Why, why?" says the junk in the yard.
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If we have no more than what we can tend, we don't fall behind. We don't run out of time to do what needs to be done.

And I found that life can change in an instant, when my back went out. What used to be reasonable became too much.

I bet most people can relate. If you've ever been sick, if you've ever broken or twisted body parts. Sure, it's easy to do the usual things, if you are in the usual state. But as soon as your own state becomes different, less energetic or more painful, your entire life and the priorities change.

Perhaps having a bit less than what you have time for is a good thing. So you have free time.

We have two choices. We can live to enjoy our surroundings, or we can have our surroundings be the only reason we live (to maintain them).

Like the differences between "Eat to live" and "Live to eat".

Or "Work to live" and "Live to work".