Possessions Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

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?

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.