Quotes About Possessions

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

Material things don't matter.

The things I own are sacred.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

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 have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

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.

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.

Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society.

You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.

If the stuff you own is not helping you create the life you want, then let it go.

More than a marketplace to sell used goods, eBay is one of the best reality checks out there when you're having trouble letting go of something because you think it's worth a lot of money. Going on to eBay tells you exactly what your possessions are worth on the open market. If that "valuable" figurine you inherited from your grandmother is selling for $9.99 on eBay, then it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.

When you can't let your stuff go, your stuff won't let you move forward.

Flat spaces are the first battlefield you lose in the war with your stuff.

Now's the time to get rid of your first batch of malignant clutter. If you simply must have a reminder that this stuff was part of your life, take a picture of it, then tuck away the physical photo in a desk or stick the digital version deep into the belly of your computer. It's time to give this clutter to the world outside your home.

Look around your house and find an item you've tried to discard before but just couldn't. Examine it and think about letting it go. What other thoughts arise? Does your mind struggle to stop you from getting rid of this item? Remember: You really don't have to obey your mind's command to hang on to it.