Quotes About Possessions

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions.

Happiness is an awareness—a blissful perception, not in ownership or in material possessions.

If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.

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

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

It's Better to Have Something Than Nothing..

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

remember that all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice.

In particular, were I to acquire a new car, a fine wardrobe, a Rolex watch, and a bigger house, I am convinced that I would experience no more joy than I presently do—and might even experience less.

A television reporter once asked Bob Marley, "Are you a rich man?" The musician replied warily, "What you mean rich?" The reporter clarified his question: "You have a lot of possessions? A lot of money in the bank?" Marley responded with a question of his own: "Possessions make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.

They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.

In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for "All that is mine I carry with me.

Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.

Jesus' understanding of his vocation came out of wrestling with God, himself and the devil in the solitude of the wilderness.8 Resisting the temptations to a false self based on power, prestige or possessions, Jesus chose his true identity as the deeply loved Son of God.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.