Quotes About Possessions

We don't need an abundance of things.

If I brought another car home, there would be problems. I have a lot of cars as it is. I'm a car addict.

objects that he very rarely either looked at or thought about, though the loss of them would have caused him to go half mad with rage and chagrin.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

Three years ago, we sold, donated, or discarded over 70% of our family's possessions. We removed clothes, furniture, decorations, cookware, tools, books, toys, plus anything else we could find in our home that was not immediately useful or beautiful. The result has been a completely transformed life and lifestyle. It is a decision we have never regretted.

Theirs is a life measured by the richness of these relationships, rather than by accumulated possessions: they treasure life lived for the moment. The Rom have maintained this way of life not in some isolated spot, but superimposed upon a widespread sedentary civilization over hundreds of years.

That was the problem with having money: you ended up with decisions to make. And if you bought anything, where would you put it? He'd need either ditch something, or to start on another carrier bag. That was the problem, being Frank.

on West End Avenue. Left pretty much all my possessions and just came to New York to start over again.

Dicho del Profeta Deseo No desees el mundo y Dios te amará. No desees lo que otros posees, y ellos te amarán.

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Money Can't Buy Happiness, but it can buy things that make you happy....

To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire for power that never left him. His childhood experiences created the man he would become, who would not bend or allow fear or weakness in any form. He cared nothing for possessions or wealth, only that his enemies fall.

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

Dragons didn't fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster's body parts.

It's hard to let go of objects because they are full of stories...They speak to us of the life we had, and the lives we never knew...We can, in fact, never be free of our stuff until we have dealt with the stories it carries. In the end, it does indeed tell us something about who we are.

Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life—an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

The creature comforts were all a man cared about at the finish.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.