Quotes About Possessions

Had I become so rich that I could neglect some of my possessions?

Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought. A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.

Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there's no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we've lost, we will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title.

Some people operate in complete fear that they're gonna lose their stuff and their money. That sounds like hell to me. And then I guess some people operate with hands open, and maybe empty, but at least striving for a deeper understanding of what it means to care.

I have all the socks and underwear I need.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

I go to de One who says silver n gold is Mine

There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

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.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.