Possessions Quotes

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?