Quote by B.J. Knights

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

— Joy Marino

Cleaning is just putting things in less obvious places.

— Asli

“Tidying in the end is just a physical act. The work involved can be broadly divided into two kinds: deciding whether or not to…

— Marie Kondō

“What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)”

— Iris Murdoch

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

“I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.”

— Peter Høeg

“Tidying is not a quick-fix solution; it's a practice, a daily intention, an approach to living.”

— Beth Penn

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

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.

— Kate Garraway

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

— Christopher Alexander

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés