Quotes About Possessions

A história mostra que, para a sociedade, quanto mais ricos nos tornamos, mais difícil é viver dentro de nossas próprias posses. Temos mais dificuldade em lidar com a abundância do que com a escassez.

possessions make us worry about downside, thus acting as a punishment as we depend on them.

If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.

it's when you're on the row that you notice that everything is owned and that there are locks on everything this is the way a democracy works: you get what you can, try to keep that and add to it if possible

I don't deserve what you have and I want to keep it that way.

Someday I'll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let's just say this example is screaming "megalomaniac!" at me.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

It's not as though you feel satisfied after collecting a certain amount of stuff. Instead, you keep thinking about what you're missing.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

The accumulation of material things is shallow and vain, but to have a genuine relationship with such things is to have a relationship with life and, by extension, a relationship with the divine.

In general, Quakers did not give gifts, as material possessions should not be given heightened status.

Fear of death and an overpowering love of this-worldly possessions sap and destroy the strength of a community. If people fear death, then death becomes the fate of their community. Those who have no fear of death, life is their destiny.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

Now you know why it was so hard for me to let go of one more thing...the land, the view, a sense of something...one thing just staying the way it should be. Control.

when the paint on the car starts to chip and the gadget gets tossed into the closet with all the others, you can't help but wonder if you've been pouring all your hard-earned money into the wrong things.

Kimse bir kitap kaybetmek istemez. Bir daha okumayacak olsak da ba?l???nda eski, belki de kaybolmu? bir duyguyu ta??yan bir kitab? kaybetmektense bir yüzük, saat veya ?emsiye kaybetmeyi ye?leriz.

If I had something valuable, I'd keep it in my pocket where I could keep an eye on it," Michael said. "Sure," said Wendy. "With all the holes you have in your pockets, that would be a real safe place.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing. She's

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.