Quotes About Possessions

The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions.

When we can't have the things that we want, We start to realize the real value of what we already have.

Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have. If you are truly rich, count the number things that you have that money can't buy.

Someone somewhere is wishing they had what you have. Be grateful for whatever you have and hold them tight, before someone else does for you.

Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing. And when we believe it, perhaps it is true.

Money can't buy happiness, because you never have enough money.

Never interfere in a person's decisions about what he will do with his possessions.

The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them.

Wealth is when you have a lot of something you love.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.

I don't even have my own computer.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

We could all write a farewell note to Mom and Dad, and tell them to give our possessions to the orphans, said Caroline, her voice trembling dramatically.

home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well.

not to care for any of his belongings before caring that he himself should be as good and as wise as possible, not to care for the city's possessions more than for the city itself, and to care for other things in the same way.

And as they have nothing but their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints will have no existence among them; they will be delivered from all those quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. Of course they will. Neither

There is the explanation that is put in the language of the mysteries, that we men are in a kind of prison, and that one must not free oneself or run away. That seems to me an impressive doctrine and one not easy to understand fully. However, Cebes, this seems to me well expressed, that the gods are our guardians and that men are one of their possessions. Or do you not think so? I do, said Cebes.

Then whatever the soul possesses, to that she comes bearing life? Yes, certainly. And is there any opposite to life? There is, he said. And what is that? Death.

After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?

He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money.