Quotes About Possessions

Money didn't buy happiness, but it did let me have pretty things.

The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

The world thinks peace would come if everyone made a lot of money, but people haven't found peace in possessions. They have thought the world would have peace if all arms were destroyed. Yet Cain killed Abel without a handgun. It is man's heart that is the problem.

The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord.

The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.

Oh, honey, I'm as messed up as the rest. I just learned not to care so much. You know? We fight wars for freedom, right, and then what do we do with that freedom? We tie ourselves down with possessions and debt and, well, other people. If I seem happy, it's because I do what I want when I want." Megan

Cassie got in her truck.She didnt own much , but it was all there with her.A vintage Balabushka pool cue won fair & square; a backpackfrom a Boy Scout packed with Laura,s letters.a phone number in Biloxi.Her tools ,her boots ,her clothes,some books;she had a .22 pistol ,a Ruger Single-Six,strapped to her ankle.She had three hundred thousand in cash in a metal box behind her seat . She drove away .

Age of rationing ended some time ago and is now space rather than possessions which is in short supply.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

I own a private yacht, private jet and a private lion.

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"

A life, at its end, is a pile of cloth and paper, and goods that can be bagged and labelled. None of the best things - the voice and the laugh, the tilt of the head, the things seen and felt and spoken -are allowed to stay behind.

Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.

Bunlar elbette, Momo'nun arkadaÅŸlar?n?n, hele kendisinin hiç sahip olmad??? çok pahal? oyuncaklard?. En küçük ayr?nt?lar?na kadar öyle ince düÅŸünülerek yap?lm??lard? ki çocuklar?n hayal kurmalar?n? gerektiren bir yanlar? kalmam??t?.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.