Quotes About Possessions

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

If you take risks you may lose your possessions. If you don't take risks you may lose your passion.

Being wealthy isn't all about having what money can buy. Having all what money can buy is being rich but having what money cannot buy is being wealthy.

The richest man is not the one who owns the most, but the one who needs the least.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

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

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

A man's life consist not of the things he possess, nor Facebook likes and approval.But some of it damn sure consist of his favorite hobbies and love of girls with guns

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Material esteem is not self esteem. One allows A person to feel good because of earthly possessions. The other allows a person to feel good because of pure Self acceptance without earthly possessions.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Don't build your identity on material things, you are greater than what you have.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?