Quote by Anthony Powell

“You can scrub and scrub, but sometimes something doesn't just go away. It . . . it stains you.”

— Lili St. Crow

“Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.”

— Arbinger Institute

“To attempt to make myself clean is only to become dirtier in the cleaning.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes you have to make a mess in order to clean up effectively.”

— Joy Marino

“Tidy your room!”

— Carol Cooper

“the real world is never particularly tidy when it reaches yours hands. Just work with what you’ve got, and make it a little bit…

— Kenneth Tam

“Make more than dust.”

— David Levithan

“There is simply no way to get something clean without getting something else dirty.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

“My friends lived in clean houses; I lived in a dirty one. I’d always known we were different, but until now I didn’t know…

— Kimberly Rae Miller

“Sometimes, when the dust settles, you realize it's really not as bad as you thought it was.”

— Susan Gale

“When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state. You”

— Marie Kondō

“It was also very dirty, but I guess it was a dirt tunnel so it had to be dirty.”

— Steve the Noob