Quotes About Possessions

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

she collects—lizards and beetles and flowers and bottle caps and stacks and stacks of candy wrappers and American Girl dolls

Your house is lovely," I say, even though it isn't. It's old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside it are lovely. "It's empty now. All my things sold up. Can't take it with you, you know." "You mean when you die?" I whisper. He glares at me. "No. I mean to the nursing home.

If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Contentment with what we have — whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities — is worth far, far more than all the things we don't have.

Wer bin ich, wenn ich bin, was ich habe und dann verliere, was ich habe?

Consumir es una forma de tener, y quizá la más importante en las ricas sociedades actuales. Consumir tiene cualidades ambiguas, alivia la angustia, porque lo que tiene el individuo no se lo puede quitar, pero también requiere consumir más, por que el consumo previo pierde su carácter satisfactorio. Los consumidores modernos pueden identificarse con la formula siguente: yo soy == lo que tengo y lo que consumo.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Why must man not marry? He cannot marry. He cannot marry, he said angrily. If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose.

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

If you start to accumulate things, you can't travel, so I lived without. I figured I could live a whole life without anything,

I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'

I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

I am trying to Marie Condo the house starting with my books, although it's really hard to part with them! But I really want to de-clutter and get rid of stuff I haven't used for six months, whether it's clothes, bags, or shoes.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

I used to keep my Air Jordans icy white. I had one toothbrush for my teeth - and a couple of toothbrushes for my shoes.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.