Quotes About Possessions

Lo, none is allowed to take his goods with him, Lo, none who departs comes back again!

Don't expel a man from his father's property, Don't reduce the nobles in their possessions.

He who could not find plow-oxen owns cattle.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

The more possessions you have, the more attention and thieves you will attract towards you.

The wallet itself costs money before you start saving inside. It is the use and value of the things that matter most in life.

We became attached to the worldly possessions, as we were not capable of penetrating through the sky and peek at what was prepared for us.

you are rich in the things I do not need and poor in things I count important.

Now the house is a museum of everything she can't let go

The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession.

Leifin was obsessed by perfection and possessions. It was an obsession that prevented her from seeing any difference between carving something beautiful and killing another thinking, feeling being for its fur.

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few.

It's always best to look ahead and not backwards. Possessions are not important. Think of those beautiful porcelain pieces I had. Before they came to me, they had all passed through the hands of many people, surviving wars and natural disasters. I got them only because someone else lost them. While I had them, I enjoyed them; now some other people will enjoy them. Life itself is transitory. Possessions are not important.

The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

Perhaps we don't respect things because we have so many of them.