Quotes About Possessions

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

I have a collection of caps, but I never count them.

It's crazy how many nude lip crayons I own - I probably need to get rid of some.

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions" (Luke 12:15).

As Jesus made clear in our central passage, freedom from anxiety is one of the inward evidences of seeking first the kingdom of God. The inward reality of simplicity involves a life of joyful unconcern for possessions. Neither the greedy nor the miserly know this liberty. It has nothing to so with abundance or possessions or their lack. It is an inward spirit of trust.

The unreasoned boast abounds that the good life is found in accumulation, that "more is better.

The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.

The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When

A dead person's clothes should be given away or burned; nothing should be kept that does not inspire happy memories.

To his horror he recollected that he had left both coat and waistcoat behind him in his cell, and with them his pocket-book, money, keys, watch, matches, pencil-case -- all that makes life worth living, all that distinguishes the many-pocketed animal, the lord of creation, from the inferior one-pocketed or no-pocketed productions that hop or trip about permissively, unequipped for the real contest.

Consumerism is our national religion.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

What I own is my fortune; what I'm owed is my fate,

We hardly notice how ubiquitous our stuff is until we have to move it to a new house.

Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on.

I imagined that a better world would be less complicated, less involved, and with less need to mass produce doorknobs and lock sets, electric outlets, power cords, frozen chicken wings, packages of steak, rubber bands, and a million little foam earbuds that slip over the broadcasting end of an iPod. I'd stand staring at Jenna's room, the recycling porch, and imagine what my life would be like if I could squeeze all my worldly possessions into a space like that.

I realize that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build ourselves out of what we think we remember, what we believe to be true about our life; and the possessions we gather around us are supposedly a part of this, that we are, to some extent what we own.

The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them; our passions, our disgusts, and our ambitions are learned. Just as we have evolved ways of transmuting physical elements from one to another, so we have evolved ways of transmuting experience into meaning.