Quotes About Possessions

Our desires increase with our possessions.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

The things a man hoarded revealed a lot about the man and what he valued.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

Hee that hath all can have no more

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.

I do not allow my possessions—or my prepossessions either—to do any thinking for me.

Money is not the success of life; it is only the power of buying the objects.

A person who has very narrow views of life gives always the importance to the people only through their material assets, clothes and shoes.

A person whose life's objective is driven by the desire to only acquire and enjoy material objects is actually negative to the people.

The fact is that the surplus money empties a person's mind and fills junk in his/her heart

The more a person loves car, bike or such material ware, the less s/he would truly care about human welfare. Beware always of such people.

The most expensive apparels, precious jewelry, pricey accessories,the costliest vehicles or any volume of material wealth owned by a person does not increase his or her value even a tiniest bit .

Discontents arise not merely from the inequality of possessions, but from the equality of honors. The multitude complain that property is unjustly, because unequally, distributed; men of superior merit or superior pretentions complain that honors are unjustly, if equally, distributed.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions.

It makes no sense in modern life to use our energies to have five cars, five bathrooms, or even five shirts, but we just . . . want them.