Quotes About Possessions

If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.

all. First, it concerns rich men. You would not think that it would be necessary to tell rich men to be content, whom God has blessed with great possessions, but, instead, persuade them to be humble and thankful. But

Then, without any attachment to your possessions of this life, generate a fearless attitude with regard to your future life.

Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.

I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.

I collect a lot of cursed objects. That's probably why I have a lot of problems.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.

the true collector's only home is his own museum.

He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

His other few possessions lay about in the grotto where chance had arranged them.

It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside.

Here was an oddity: that in the latter days when laymen owned everything they didn't care much for anything, yet some priests who owned little or nothing developed ferocious attachments for ordinary objects—I once knew a monk who owned nothing, had given it all away for Christ, yet coveted the monastery typewriter with a jealous love, flew into rages when another monk touched it.

Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.

Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.

It was important to avoid attachment to material objects. Our consumer desires are unhealthy.

G]old is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands.