Quotes About Possessions

Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions.

The key word in her mind was home. Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This loss of freedom was what people like Lou Sanders and Wilson's mother, Jessie, dreaded. Wilson

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This

The key word in her mind was home. Home is the one place where your own priorities hold sway. At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This loss of freedom was what people like Lou Sanders and Wilson's mother, Jessie, dreaded.

You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.

A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

Henry Thoreau said that we don't own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it's a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.

We don't own things. Things own us.

If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands, for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty

We must reject the lie of materialism. Your STUFF, does not dictate Your STATURE.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

The more toys children have, the less likely that they would enjoy any of them.

Up 5.15 a.m. thinking, packpackpack. I appear to have accumulated more things. How did this happen? I haven't shopped. Think my bath oils have bred.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Jangan rusakkan yang kita miliki dengan mendambakan apa yang tidak kita miliki. Ingatlah bahwa apa yang kita miliki pun merupakan hadiah keberuntungan.

A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

I have a car but it's not important.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Many of us cling to particular vessels, fetishizing over this mug or that plate.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things