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Quotes About Belongings

Socks to keep your feet warm. Your diary, too—don't worry, I haven't read it or anything." "I'd be surprised if you had. You're more trustworthy than that." "No, I'm illiterate." Her eyes flared. "Anyway"—his voice was hard as his jawline—"I figured you'd want some of your own stuff.
~ J.R. Ward
Houses are full of things that gather dust
~ Jack Kerouac
My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable.
~ Dries van Noten
Zoe to move along. In the bathroom, she snatched a bottle of 600 ml. Ibuprofen—given to her at the hospital. She didn't need it, but it had her name on it, and while nearly everything she owned would inevitably be left behind, the bottle was her prescription with her name on it. It had to go. She dumped
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
The house was full of things Zoe had bought
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
I've got a lot of stuff in the bed of my truck.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I don't own any of these names. I don't own Johnny World, Johnny Mundo, John Morrison, Johnny Nitro, Johnny Blaze or Johnny Impact. None of it.
~ John Morrison
There may be some part of the world – dead countries, or secure and by-passed ones – where men can cherish the past and think of passing on furniture and china to their heirs. Men can do that perhaps in Sweden or Canada.
~ V.S. Naipaul
She dug through her backpack, found the lunch Eva had packed for her and a well-read copy of Jane Eyre. Some kids had stuffed animals or special childhood blankets. Lexi had Jane.
~ Kristin Hannah
Ultimately we are the sum of our experiences and not the sum of our belongings.
~ James Altucher
Houses are full of things that gather dust
~ Jack Kerouac
Rzeczy, które posiadasz w koÅ"cu zaczynajÄ… posiada? ciebie.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Omnia mea mecum porto.
~ Cicero
A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity. The galaxy was too big a place for any being to stand naked and alone.
~ Clifford D. Simak
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
~ Colette
Then, bidding farewell to The Knick-Knack, I went to collect the few personal belongings which, at that time, I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
~ Colette
I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
~ Virginia Woolf
What a job, clearing the homes of the dead, piling whole lives into garbage bins and lugging them to the curb.
~ Celeste Ng
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
~ Charles Dickens
Many Buddhist practitioners recite the Five Remembrances daily. The fifth is, "My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.
~ Lexa Doig
To him it felt as if his house had seased to be his home and instead had become a place that merely contained some of his belongings.
~ Thomas French
The sergeant opened the gun safe and put her belongings inside, as the nearly 150-year tradition of Weldonville demanded. Firearms had never been allowed in the city council chamber.
~ Thomas Perry
Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.
~ Tim Freke