Quotes About Possessions

Rather than striving for a particular level of possessions—minimal or otherwise—it's helpful to think about getting rid of what's superfluous. Even people who prefer to own many possessions enjoy their surroundings more when they've purged everything that's not needed, used, or loved.

Having less often leads us to use our things more often and with more enjoyment, because we're not fighting our way through a welter of unwanted stuff.

If you need to buy things to store things, perhaps you have too many things.

We have nothing of our own except time, which even the homeless can experience." —Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at most often, and comes to form his window or gateway to the larger cosmos.

They say possesions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

I've bought every toy I ever wanted.

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

Guys never really get over their toys.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions...

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have.

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions, was telling its story to Jesse the man of God as it was to the men about him.