Quotes About Possessions

#1. 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

#2. Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Jane Fonda

#3. In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#4. When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

Beverly LaHaye

#5. Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Patton Oswalt

#6. We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

LeCrae

#7. the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal - so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.

Gary A. Haugen

#8. At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

Victoria Osteen

#9. ... The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. Give yourself to a great cause, not only your possessions.

Debasish Mridha

#11. We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Sydney J. Harris

#12. Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

Phil Callaway

#13. Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

Brad Warner

#14. Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

Fennel Hudson

#15. Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#16. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.

Joshua Becker

#17. The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

George Carlin

#18. Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

Elie Wiesel

#19. Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.

Wu Wei

#20. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.

Simone De Beauvoir

#21. Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Thomas Aquinas

#22. It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions ... If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

John Maynard Keynes

#23. People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

Mabel Seeley

#24. The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

Chris Matakas

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

Anthony Horowitz

#26. [W]hat a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Erich Fromm

#27. Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that having religious observance in the home is as important as providing food, clothing and shelter.

Quentin L. Cook

#28. In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Harsha Bhogle

#29. There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.

Jan Koum

#30. Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.

Sophie Kinsella

#31. All things are transitory. All things must pass. Attachments whether to material possessions, to people, to places to name, are futile. Despite your clinging, these things will fade away.

Hari Kunzru

#32. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Marvin J. Ashton

#33. First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

Saint Basil

#34. Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.

Bertrand Russell

#35. Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

Fennel Hudson

#36. Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

James Allen

#37. Oh! Happiness
I am looking for you
In the wilderness,
In and around the palaces,
In my possessions, in my wealth and splendor, I can see you far away,
Like an illusion,
I try to touch feel and smell but,
Like a morichica you dance far away.

Debasish Mridha

#38. One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

David O. McKay

#39. In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Max Lerner

#40. Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

Gautama Buddha

#41. One of the best lessons we can learn is humility. You should define your material possessions; they shouldn't define you. #

Celso Cukierkorn

#42. If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

Mark Victor Hansen

#43. 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

#44. Possessions can be, and most often are, a distraction from the real work of a knight's life. A lion doesn't own anything at all, yet we all know his power.

Ethan Hawke

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

Rabindranath Tagore

#46. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's glory.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#47. I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.

Alda Merini

#48. You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.

Omar Khayyam

#49. Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

Yanni

#50. Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Hosea Ballou

#52. Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

John Cudahy

#53. Can you imagine throwing away all of your possessions once a year because you are secure in your expectation that you will be able to replace them in a matter of weeks?

Hope Jahren

#54. It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions,

Bertrand Russell

#55. The less I have, the less I can lose.

Dean Koontz

#56. Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#57. The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.

Richard J. Foster

#58. To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Wallace Stegner

#59. It's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out for other things
fancy possessions for sure, pedigree, maybe youth too ... we beat Them (and spare ourselves a lot of tedium and terror) by declining to worship.

Helen Oyeyemi

#60. You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

Frederick Lenz

#61. Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#62. What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you - your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life - money, relationships, speech, possessions?

Billy Graham

#63. 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

#64. The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. ... they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

Thomas Mann

#65. The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

Brad Stevens

#66. The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

Watchman Nee

#67. Material possessions do not last, but memories last forever.

Margo Vader

#68. Every woman is harmed by the cultural expectation that women are decorative possessions, sexual objects to be acted upon; and every man benefits from having been socialized to be the actor.

Anonymous

#69. A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

William James

#70. Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

Jerry Bridges

#71. 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

#72. The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

H.L. Mencken

#73. Out of the lavishness displayed in the marvelous variety and richness of creation itself, God continues to pour out his common blessings on all people. Therefore, we neither hoard possessions as if God's gifts were scarce nor deny ourselves pleasures as if God were stingy.

Michael S. Horton

#74. When we are sad ... it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

Donna Tartt

#75. But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

George MacDonald

#76. When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

Valeria Golino

#77. Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content until he had given us all that he had.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#78. Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Charles Stanley

#79. 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.

Anais Nin

#80. I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.

Anne Frank

#81. A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

#82. It is your heart behind the action that allows you to prosper, not the action yourself. You can give away all your possessions, time, and energy, but if you do it to look good, to look pious, to look holy, you have already lost.

J. Evan Johnson

#83. After all, our possessions very accurately relate the history of the decisions we have made in life. Tidying is a way of taking stock that shows us what we really like.

Marie Kondo

#84. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

George Carlin

#85. Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don't necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Blake Mycoskie

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

Khalil Gibran

#87. My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

John The Apostle

#88. To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Rius

#89. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Wilfred Grenfell

#90. He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

A.W. Tozer

#91. When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

John Stott

#92. The Root Cause of Our Problems is The Attachment To Possessions and #Desire for more.
#KnowThyself

Gian Kumar

#93. Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

Gustave Flaubert

#94. When the court is arrayed in splendor, The fields are full of weeds, And the granaries are empty. Some wear gorgeous clothes, Carry sharp swords, And indulge in food and drink; They have more possessions than they can use. They are robber barons. This is certainly not the way of Tao.

Lao-Tzu

#95. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

Samuel Johnson

#96. Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves.

Sophia Amoruso

#97. Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.

Alberto Manguel

#98. When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?

Yasmin Mogahed

#99. Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

Croft M. Pentz

#100. The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

Brian Krans