Quotes About Possession

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

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?

Women can be as destructive, possessive and prone to rage as men, it turns out: but discovering that is what terrifies them, while exhilarating women.

Bernie doesn't own a tuxedo.

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

I'm a collector, so I've got all kinds of sunglasses. I'd say I've got about a buck ten, buck twenty.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?