No Possessions Quotes

#1. Remove,' I said to myself, 'the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.

Don Carpenter

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

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.

John Lennon

#4. He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have
everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.

Orson Scott Card

#5. You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.

Sophal Ear

#6. Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

Elvis Costello

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

Townsend Harris

#8. India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

Gary Wright

#9. I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

Satish Kumar

#10. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

Eric Shipton

#11. My Japanese designed, vacuum-sealed thermos was one of my most prized possessions. I had filled it up before I went to sleep so there were no worries. This baby laughed in the face of entropy.

B. Justin Shier

#12. Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Wayne Dyer

#13. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Strange how my body and its purity have become the town's sacred possessions, yet they spare me no pity. It's as if they were the ones wronged, not me.

Julie Berry

#15. If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.

Breanna Sampson

#16. It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).

Marjorie Hillis

#17. To feel unloved, to feel all alone in the world, hurts no matter who you are, or what possessions you have.

Melody Anne

#18. We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

Lloyd Jones

#19. Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests - the loss of his possessions and children, the loss of his health, and the loss of his friends and their respect - answers in the affirmative. Yes, it is possible. In fact, it is necessary

Sidney Greidanus

#20. Fear of want, no doubt, makes every living creature greedy and rapacious, and man, besides, develops these qualities out of sheer pride, which glories in getting ahead of others by a superfluous display of possessions.

Thomas More

#21. The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

John Calvin

#22. No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

Louis Sabin

#23. When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

Karen Salmansohn

#24. He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

Ian McEwan

#25. I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

Allen Ginsberg

#26. Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Thiruvalluvar

#27. No amount of money or possessions is ever going to make you feel fulfilled. No amount will ever be enough. No amount will ever make you happy.

C. Kancel

#28. If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes. (Jugurthine War 86.3)

Sallust

#29. If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.

Marva Dawn

#30. I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

Milarepa

#31. When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.

Wendell Berry

#32. No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#33. If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Thomas Bulfinch

#34. Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

B. Traven

#35. Diamond Skinner had had no material possessions to his name and yet had been the happiest creature Lou had ever met. He and God would no doubt get along famously.

David Baldacci

#36. All the things you think are important - money, power, material possessions - none of them will make you happy. There's no correlation between wealth and happiness. Absolutely none. It's one of society's biggest lies.

Andrew Peterson

#37. A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

Epicurus

#38. The elderly man from the ashram, explained to me, if the villagers wanted peace, they would feed and house the peacemakers. If they didn't want peace, no outsiders could help anyway. As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

Gloria Steinem

#39. You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Arnold Bennett

#40. Those who possess nothing and yet enjoy everything have no fear of losing anything.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.

J.K. Rowling

#42. He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

Kate Chopin

#43. When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Ruth Rendell

#44. 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.

Mark A.R. Kleiman

#45. Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

Khalil Gibran

#46. The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.

Marie Kondo

#47. But here's the thing
no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you "need".

Karen Kingston

#48. He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

Marcus Aurelius

#49. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison

#50. Non of our possessions would be obsolete, unless have no respect for them.

Saaif Alam

#51. No." Elizabeth shook her head. Resolution seeped through her, as powerful as adrenaline. "No one can command my convictions. They are mine, given to me by God and meant for my life's journey. You can destroy my possessions, but you cannot take what is in my heart.

Alicia A. Willis

#52. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

Charles Lamb

#53. I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not.

Kate Chopin

#54. No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

David Adam

#55. Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.

W. Clement Stone

#56. Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Blaise Pascal

#57. In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#58. You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.

John Lanchester

#59. The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

Paulo Freire

#60. To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.

Peace Pilgrim

#61. What freedom is found in recognizing that only God creates! No longer must we labor under the delusion of our own self-importance. We need not find our value in people or possessions - it rests in our origin.

Jen Wilkin

#62. Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John Locke

#63. O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than ... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.

Walter Benjamin

#64. Those storage "solutions" are really just prisons within which to bury possessions that spark no joy.

Marie Kondo

#65. Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

Martin Luther

#66. All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth
including America, of course
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

Mark Twain

#67. We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Joseph Cook

#68. A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them
as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself
into the grave, and is forgotten.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#69. You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

Allen Ginsberg