Quotes About Possessions

Every item I add to my possessions is one more thing to think about, talk about, clean, repair, display, rearrange, and replace when it goes bad.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord.

I'm never going to own anything can hurt me.

Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags-rags that wouldfly off at the first good shake.

They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.

libertad auténtica es cuando la mente se desprende de lo inútil y de los miedos; cuando decide rechazar todos los apegos y los supuestos privilegios (estatus, poder, fama) que alimentan el ego hasta convertirlo en algo insufrible. Placeres del tener que nos atan o nos hacen caminar en círculos; malos placeres, diría

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

He was still telling himself to calm down, patting his pockets for a Tootsie Pop—something he hadn't done all week—when he went into the closet and found Goldilocks surrounded by piles of his clothes and possessions, each pile organized and labeled with handwritten descriptions.

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance.

Remember you don't really own anything you can't carry at a dead run.

Pochi oggetti risvegliano quanto il libro il sentimento di assoluta proprietà.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

I want you to have some nice stuff; I just don't want your nice stuff to have you.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

The moment you begin to consider having more than someone else, you begin to fear you might end up with less than someone else.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

These transient facts, These fugitive impressions. Must be transformed by mental acts, To permanent possessions. Then summon up your grasp of mind, Your fancy scientific, Till sights and sounds with thought combined Become of truth prolific

Materialistic items do not move me, I love nice things but they do not motivate or decide for me what I do in life