Quotes About Possessions

Don't accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences or vice versa–

Defining moments. Intentional strategies. Adventurous living. Most of us spend our trips around the sun accumulating the wrong things. Possessions are a dime a dozen. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.

It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.

Rich men have big libraries. Poor men have big TVs.

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here? By Mark Miller

This is why governments all over the world love missionaries—they civilize people and get them into the money system," Suelo observes now, but at the time he was flabbergasted. What of Jesus's teaching his followers to give up possessions? "And suddenly it dawned on me: if you were going to call something Antichrist, this would be it. The people who were promoting this so-called Christianity are really Antichrist.

That's how it always was and always will be, he thought a little bitterly. We come in with nothing, and we go out with nothing.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things.

Love; Priceless. Add materialistic value to it and it becomes Worthless.

Death is easy because it is release from the pressure of worldly possessions and feeling but love is something that you must fight for even in the most difficult of times. And life as it is described is unknown but the words I live by are these. Just keep moving forward.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

Ellos (Los Auténticos) creen que los objetos generan miedo. Cuantas más cosas tienes más tienes que temer. Al final sólo vives para tener cosas.

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

The nomad had the age-old God-given way of life to offer, the way of Abel. The sons of Cain -for it was Cain who built the first villages -had possessions and power.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions. ~ Olivia Rutledge from The Beach House

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week

That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne

There is no harm in carrying a borrowed umbrella, but toothbrushes and opinions should always be one's own.

Humanity must stop indulging the desire for material possessions and personal gain and move instead toward spiritual awareness.