Quotes About Possessions

Possessions mean power, the right to say, 'Do this' or 'Do that.' If you struggle long and hard for a thing it becomes infinitely sweet to you.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Never get attached to possessions…. They're just things and you can always get more things.

Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

Embrace your poverty. We're all equally broke and blessed. "People come into this world with nothing, and when they die they leave with nothing" (Eccles. 5:15 NCV).

Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.

Materialism creates a world of narcissism in which the focus of life is solely on acquisition and consumption

Era in balia di ogni soffio di vento, non possedeva nulla.

Too many people try to find security and significance in too many places. They look in relationships; they look in popularity; they look in money and possessions. But these are all detours and dead ends.

I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be worth money. There's always a chance you could turn on 'Pawn Stars' one day and that'd be on there.

a great many garage sales.

regardless of social status, we derive comfort from our stuff; the familiar warp and weft of our lives

I tried to imagine myself dead, someone sorting carelessly through my belongings. What was there really of my life? Canceled checks. Reports all typewritten and filed. Everything of value reduced to terse prose. I didn't keep much myself, didn't hoard or save.

I hate when people dismiss the loss of an object because "it's just a thing." Things are important. They give comfort, shelter, style, identity. The sum total of your things is a road map of your life. They show where you've been, what you accomplished, who you loved, who loved you back. They are an expression of who you are. You can learn a lot about a person by their things. Material things are not what's most important in life, of course!

Annie's other prized book lay nearby—a copy of Lord of the Flies, a vintage clothbound volume in a sturdy slipcase, one of three copies she possessed. She hoped the reporter wouldn't ask about that.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

Others just liked having their useless shit around in the place where they spent most of their time.

I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.

there was no point in owning anything in L.A. . . . in this she had a curious premonition or grasp of 'place.