Quotes About Belongings

I like to have things around me that I love. However, I'm not a hoarder and get rid of everything I don't need.

Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

The things I own are sacred.

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

I want to create a foundation, like a maison, in my home in the Marais. I am going to leave everything there. I am only passing through. I'm not a proprietor of anything, even if I have homes and things.

You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.

But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily.

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.

Creating a personal space with individual items that you love is so much easier on the wallet and really expresses your creativity.

Woolf disagrees, saying of the home, "For there we sit surrounded by objects which enforce the memories of our own experience.

Denn wenn man niemanden hat, den man ab und an aus der Stadt verjagen kann, wie soll man dann wissen, dass man selbst dorthin gehört?

A woman with a voice like that should have the face of an angel, the body of a Greek sculpture, and the skills of a courtesan. Chances were, she was a haggard old crone. The hulking workman began to gather his tools. I hope ye and yer pa know what ye're doin'. Fop or no, no man takes well to losin' his belongings. Psht , the woman said airily. It's not as if we plan on knocking him in the head and peeling his pockets. That was something,at least, Dougal thought grimly.

birth certificate and death certificate, both issued in Cook County, Illinois. Laura's various diplomas, her birth certificate from Rhode Island, her social security card, her driver's license. Andrea Eloise Mitchell's record of live birth dated August 20, 1987. The deed to the Belle Isle house. Immunization records. Marriage license. Divorce decree. Car titles. Insurance cards. Bank statements. Credit card statements.

My actions are my only true belongings.

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?

Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.