Quotes About Possessions

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Agriculture creates and elevates possessions; consider the longing root of belongings, as if they ever make up for the loss.

There's even a name for the people who have the most stuff. They're called hoarders. Back in the day they were just called grandmothers.

Health is a treasure. Of all temporal possessions it is the most precious.

The Review and Herald, May 16, 1882. Possessions as Well as Income to Be Tithed As did Abraham, they are to pay tithe of all they possess and all they receive. A faithful tithe is the [67] Lord's portion. To withhold it is to rob God. Every man should freely and willingly and gladly bring tithes and offerings into the storehouse of the Lord, because in so doing there is a blessing. There is no safety in withholding from God His own portion.—Manuscript 159, 1899.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away.

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?

We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.

Please do not steal my kitchen stove. If you need a stove steal something else like the telephone book or that empty bottle of Woostershire Sauce standing on the parlor mantelpiece with the daisy in it, and sell them to buy a new stove with the money. I've had that stove for ten years and it has only just learned how to cook and it would be very annoying to me to have to get a new one and have to teach it how I like my potatoes done.

Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.

Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.

You realize just by writing down everything you own that it's just materialistic stuff. We are much more than that.

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

She got very tired, so tired that even her toys could no longer amuse her. You would wonder at that if I had time to describe to you one half of the toys she had. But then, you wouldn't have the toys themselves, and that makes all the difference: you can't get tired of a thing before you have it.