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the joy of victory isn’t nearly as strong as the despair you experience in defeat, and those happy feelings after winning are fleeting compared with how long you suffer from a crushing defeat.
The Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza observed that when people say something is impossible, they’ve already decided that they don’t want to do it.
I used to have multiple bank accounts and a lot of bank cards fattening up my wallet. While these were thin cards that didn’t take up much physical space, they took up a lot of the memory I had available in my brain.
If you wait until you have the time, you’ll never have the time.
The same can be said for the nests that we call storage. Even if we clear it out thoroughly, we’ll eventually start filling it up again. So the most effective method for cleaning up is to do away with the nest itself.
them. They’ll wind up sitting around in piles. Fortunately, most of us can’t bear such a sight and we’ll feel compelled to do something about it, like start throwing things away.
We’ll get to all those hobby items and tools once things quiet down. Someday. That’s what we tell ourselves. But we know by now that that time is probably never going to come. May I make a gentle suggestion? Let go of “someday.” Things we don’t need now will probably never be needed.
“A hot pot party? Yeah, that sounds great. We can’t do it at my place, though, since I don’t have the equipment. But listen, I know of a place that serves terrific hot pots, so why don’t we go there? We can have drinks at my place afterward if we want to keep the party going.”
That’s mean and expensive just because he’s lazy to buy plates.
It’s the memories that we can recall without the aid of objects that are truly important.
Things tend to bring in more things.
The things that are truly valuable are bound to be professionally collected and properly stored by someone somewhere. When it comes to collections, be brave. Let them go. Our homes aren’t museums. We can always visit a real museum to see rare, beautiful objects.
