Quotes About Possessions

The less I have, the less I can lose.

Parker possesses the resources to acquire whatever he wants

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content" (I Tim. 6:6-8).

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives.We own our thoughts, but everything else is borrowed. Everything.

If you've ever had to run you know that stuff is just stuff. Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

There is no UHaul behind the hearse.

The more attachments we accumulate, the more we need this inner cleansing. If we have mental baggage, we need to unlearn; if we have emotional dependencies, we need to let them go; if we have possessions that clutter up our lives, we need to give them away.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

A heavy wallet is lined with tears.

Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo, scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà.

The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

You only live once!' we are told. `You might miss out on something!' This hunger for pleasure, for possessions, for power; the thirst for recognition through success and admiration - that is the perversion of modem men and women. That is their godlessness. The person who loses God makes a god out of himself. And in this way a human being becomes a proud and unhappy mini-god.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

My favorite quote from Thoreau is also from Walden," said Gamache. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I smoked while they compared booty. Things they took … nail polish, perfume, toilet paper. Things they were given … one-earrings, twenty hangers, torn bras. (Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore

The fact is that the money in our bank account was once something else: work and enterprise. And that money will become something else: possessions and experiences.