Quotes About Possessions

He made the mistake of imagining that his possessions were a measure of his own worth, and strutted and crowed, parading his things like a schoolboy with a champion catapult.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

Aunque quienes no tienen fe pueden, por deseos carnales, empeñar, hipotecar o vender lo que tienen, y hasta a ellos mismos; sin embargo, quienes tiene fe, fe salvadora, aunque sea poca, no pueden hacerlo.

She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

I don't want a Lamborghini. Even if I was given one, I'd be like one of those people who won the speedboat on 'Bullseye' and have it in Exchange & Mart within 48 hours.

The more we have the less we own.

I don't have the resources to maintain luxury cars, though I love them.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

The very idea of purging source data appalls me. I suppose if I were human, I'd be a pack rat. I'd probably end up as a little old lady who gets crushed to death beneath the weight of her lifetime collection of National Geographics.

It took twenty big army trucks, jam-packed to the corners, to move the Roosevelts' monumental twelve-year collection of possessions out of the White House. We packed night and day, for one entire week.

Whether for present possessions or future prospects, there is no family so well off as "the whole family in heaven and earth." Whether you look at what they have now, or will have hereafter, there is no family like the family of God.

Where are they now? she thought. Her iPod, her iPhone, her iPad, the I-ness of her life? Her mind stretched around in its memories, searching for her things: She saw her phone on the hotel bedside table in Paris; her iPad in her Louis Vuitton urban satchel; her iPod slipping from her pocket in the restaurant, the night before she ran away.

The more you add to what you have, the less you are. Accumulating more, concentrating all your effort in the quest for things you can have, means losing your being in the process.... Being involves something different than the quest for having. Adding to what you have means losing your being.

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Certo, e poi non si può dare a un altro quello che non si ha: Nemo dat quod non habet.