Quotes About Possessions

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Whether we live alone or with other people, few acknowledge the presence of another roommate. This roommate is named 'Things' and the space that 'Things' occupies is typically a lot larger than the space people have for themselves.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

I don't own anything designer.

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

Everyone deserves to have some caged clutter, to tuck away a few items somewhere, but this is not the same as cramming stuff to the ceiling in the garage,

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

Actually, clutter stems from four bad habits, which I call the Deadly Sins of Clutter. Do you: • Save everything (whether you need it or want it or not)? • Insist on bringing home (or allowing into your home) stuff you don't need? • Never assign a place where each thing belongs? • Set things aside or drop them, intending "to put them away later"?

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Idolatry is Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.

The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

Because it puts it ultimately in our hands, doesn't it? What we choose to live with, and what we choose to live without.

So little gives me joy now that I'm afraid I'll get rid of every single thing I've ever owned and end up with nothing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Feeling empty only makes me want to be emptier.

The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...