Quotes About Possessions

People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?" "Why?" asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expansive mode of expression on Brown's part. "Because they have better stuff," Brown had replied. "No other reason.

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

Perhaps only when one possessed a greater treasure could one let go of this world.

The time wasted, the energy squandered on meaningless possessions, the compromises...

Al trasladarse de un río a otro, los wabanakis tenían que acarrear sus canoas y el resto de sus posesiones. Todos conocían el valor de viajar ligero y comprendían que ello requería dejar atrás algunas cosas. El miedo, con frecuencia la carga más difícil de abandonar, era lo que más entorpecía el movimiento. BUNNY MCBRIDE, Women of the Dawn

The questions on the assignment sheet are: What did you choose to bring with you to the next place? What did you leave behind? What insights did you gain about what's important? Molly's kind of into the idea of the project, but she doesn't want to interview Ralph or—God forbid—Dina.

Happiness is the things you possess divided by the things you expect.

Danes don't believe that buying more stuff brings you happiness,' Christian told me. 'A bigger car just brings you a bigger tax bill in Denmark. And a bigger house just takes longer to clean.' In an approximation of the late, great Notorious B.I.G.'s profound precept, greater wealth means additional anxieties, or in Danish, according to my new favourite app, Google Translate, the somewhat less catchy 'mere penge, mere problemer'.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Ninguém está satisfeito com os bens que possui, mas todos estão satisfeitos com a inteligência que têm.

The decision to leave Germany after the advent of Hitler would seem an easy and obvious one now, but the prospect of abandoning one's traditions, relationships and possessions for the hazards of a foreign land and tongue, with little or no capital to begin life anew, could not have seemed attractive at the time.

The following day, the Lord Treasurer demanded all of the jewels and finery he had so obsequiously bestowed upon Jane not ten days earlier, then went through Jane and Guildford's possessions like a repo man.

I'll just get my things" "I understand." "Actually I haven't got any things.

The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

I wasn't always a minimalist. I used to buy a lot of things, believing that all those possessions would increase my self-worth and lead to a happier life. I loved collecting a lot of useless stuff, and I couldn't throw anything away.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.