Quotes About Possessions

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.

It's not money, but what you can buy with it. Money is power. Money is security. Money is freedom.

Blacks were working as hard as they could to become a part of the system; I could not relate to their goals. These brothers still believed in making it in the world. They talked about it loud and long, expressing the desire for families, houses, cars, and so forth. Even at that time I did not want those things. I wanted freedom, and possessions meant nonfreedom to me.

Today we do not live under a sacred canopy; it is marketing that forms the backdrop of our culture. The message that advertising dins into our conscious and unconscious minds is that fulfillment derives from the things we possess.

If your head explodes can I have your stuff?

You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

I'm not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I've got a truck, and I've got my bike. I've got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

You look for lost property, not just people?

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." – George Carlin, Author, Actor and Comedian

I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's, like, hard to sell a baby.

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.