Quotes About Possessions

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has

Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are.