Quotes About Belongings

For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

You leave so much behind to do this," I said awkward, thinking of his tools, his half-finished puppets, even the plants growing inside by the window. Despite myself, I felt responsabile for it. Perhaps it was because I was glad that I was not going on alone. He glanced over me and shrugged. "I take myself with me. That's all I truly need, or own.

Is the land a source of belongings, or a source of belonging?

when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them.

Mine first -mine last - mine even in the grave! - Tempest

When everything you think you own—your belongings, your life—can be swept away in an instant, you must ask yourself, What is real?

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape it. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape it. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape it. There is no way to escape being separated from everyone I love, and all that is dear to me. My actions are my only true belongings. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

This is what happens when you stay in one place for thirteen years, Anne says. First you own things. Then they own you.

All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.

Parents die far from home, and they take their things with them. The things that might give their kids comfort or solace or even an answer or two. Not that things were enough, but they were something to hold on to. Objects to hold and examine, reminders of someone who had once loved you. And sometimes they were all you had.

The things that truly define me can't be lost.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information

Help your puppy identify their belongings by keeping their toys and bones in one area. Identify each object as you play with it.

Remember: it's not clutter; it's the evidence of life.

One, who voices, for revolution and stays for its people than own belongings and beloved ones, becomes and proves a real and true revolutionary.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

The advice to simplify our lives brings to mind William Morris' dictum that we should have nothing in our houses that we don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. More recently, Marie Kondo has suggested that unless an object 'sparks joy' in our heart, we should get rid of it.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.