Quotes About Possessions

My certainty that deep down I'm a free man. It's a constant, precious possession, and whether I keep it or lose it is up to me and no one else. I desperately want the insanity we're living through to end. I desperately want what has begun to finish. In a word, I desperately want this tragedy to be over and for us to try to survive it, that's all. What's important is to live; Primum vivere. One day at a time. To survive, to wait, to hope.

What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations.

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

You can't score if you're turning it over. It's like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you're not scoring points. That's not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you're giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I have to have everything. I have to have iPads. I've had I think every generation of iPod. I've had all the consoles at least once; I've had some of them twice. I get them and get fed up with them and get rid of them.

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

At the end of the day I want to wear everything.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.

People who are free to choose will choose the best use for whatever it is they possess. Wealth and prosperity begin with the freedom to choose.

I am happy if I can give them away or donate them. But I can't throw a book in the trash, no matter how hard I try.

It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.

What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.