Quotes About Possessions

We cannot hope to understand consumer behavior without first gaining some understanding of the meanings that consumers attach to possessions. A key to understanding what possessions mean is recognizing that, knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, we regard our possessions as parts of ourselves.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. Who

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

27. Treat what you don't have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them. But be careful. Don't feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.

For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Don't cling to possessions and other external things; cling only to the divine spark within you.

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not through being so pleased with them accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Treat what you don't have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them. But be careful. Don't feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.

Com efeito, o presente é tudo de que se pode ser privado: afinal, tudo o que se tem é o presente, e a perda daquilo que não se possui não é possível.

27. Não imagine aquilo que lhe falta como algo superior ao que você já possui. Daquilo que já possui, pensa no que é melhor, e quanto lhe custaria obtê-lo caso lhe faltasse. No entanto, ao mesmo tempo em que reflete sobre isso, evita valorizá-la ao ponto de ficar perturbado se algum dia tal coisa de fato lhe for retirada.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

I absolutely don't buy into the current mania for tidiness and decluttering. For a writer, piles of papers and notes are a fertile field. Keep all those books you read in college, or had certainly meant to read. Keep all those clothes that last fit during the Carter administration. Or give them away. It's for you to choose. You has value.

Clothes, first. Of course, one needs less in the sun. But one needs less anyway, one finds suddenly. One does not need a closet-full, only a small suitcase-full.

Is it not rather ugly, one may ask? One collects material possessions not only for security, comfort or vanity, but for beauty as well. Is your sea-shell house not ugly and bare? No, it is beautiful, my house. It is bare, of course, but the wind, the sun, the smell of the pines blow through its bareness. The unfinished beams in the roof are veiled by cobwebs. They are lovely, I think, gazing up at them with new eyes;

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy.

If money can't buy you the freedom to do anything you want, well, what is the good of it?

Poverty is its own cruel trap but still raises questions about whether we own our possessions or are owned by them. Somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania we saw a man who had tied the handle of a snow shovel to his belt and then piled all his belongings onto the blade, which sledded along behind him. Depending on your perspective he was either the freest man in the country or just the poorest.

Wealth is supposed to liberate us from the dangers of dependency but quickly becomes a dependency in its own right. The wealthier we are, the higher our standard of living and the more - not less - we depend on society for our safety and comfort. [,,] Poverty is its own cruel trap but still raises questions about whether we own our possessions or are owned by them.

Thats the trouble with having money; you think about buying almost anything you see.

Do you own anything not pink? (Talon) I have a purple razor if you'd rather. (Sunshine) Please. (Talon) (She pulled out a darker pink one.) That's not purple. It's pink too. (Talon) Well, that's all I have unless you want my X-Acto blade. (Sunshine)