Top 100 Quotes About Possessions
#1. When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.
Rick Riordan
#2. Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer
#3. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
Patricia Highsmith
#5. If we had possessions, Francis would say, we would also need weapons. He held on to the inescapable link of poverty and peace.
Dorothee Solle
#6. Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.
Paul L Wachtel
#7. Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
Brandon Sanderson
#8. Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias Of Priene
#9. 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
#10. Teach your kids to reject blind conformity. Because when they do, rarely will they discover their heart desires more money, possessions, fame, or power. It will usually ask for something far more countercultural than those.
Joshua Becker
#12. If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both.
Kennedy Fraser
#13. My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me.
Rebecca Ferguson
#14. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
Joseph Brotherton
#15. How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.
Robert Blair
#16. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
#17. Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light.
Alex Morritt
#18. 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
#19. Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney
#20. We are not these bodies; we're neither our accomplishments nor our possessions - we are all one with the Source of all being, which is God.
Anita Moorjani
#21. O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!
Theresa Villiers
#22. The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.
Conn Iggulden
#23. Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer - who have made it in the eyes of the world - and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. You're a nice girl, Livia. Love is sacred. Hold onto it. I know a lot at my age. Everything else fails you - money, possessions, sex. But love never fails.
Debra Anastasia
#26. Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
Sallust
#27. Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little to do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with worth inside of heads and hearts.
Fred Rogers
#28. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
#29. 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
#30. Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
Neil Young
#31. Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.
Susan Ferrier
#32. Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
Plato
#33. prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . .
Jen Hatmaker
#34. My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.
David Suzuki
#35. If you want to destroy a man, you don't take his life. You let him live. Then you take his peace of mind, his possessions, his loved ones... everything he owns. Then he will beg you to kill him.
Elizabeth Ellen Carter
#36. Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society.
Peter Townsend
#37. Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age
the Age of Transparency
the facts and the truth will out.
Imelda Marcos
#39. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
George D. Prentice
#40. Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai Lama
#41. An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Stephen Covey
#42. Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
Luke The Evangelist
#43. 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
#44. Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#45. We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.8
John Eldredge
#46. 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
#47. Contestants, whether it be for an army or a posse, we must be strong. We must face our fears, if only to save me and my worldly possessions. So reapply your lipstick, we're going to the Fearnasium, Mrs. Wellington announced stoically before exiting the dining room.
Gitty Daneshvari
#48. Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.
Marjorie Garber
#49. 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
#50. Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
#51. The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
J.H. Wyman
#52. Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#53. And before that, there was, oh, I don't know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It's always something.
John Scalzi
#54. Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.
Rolf Potts
#56. have our civilizations become so destitute that we can only live in our fear of want? Can we only enjoy our possessions or our senses when we are certain that we shall always be able to enjoy them?
Muriel Barbery
#57. A beautiful life is a life that is content and satisfied with material possessions, and has an abundance of hope, love, laughter, kindness, and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.
John C. Maxwell
#59. Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
John Donne
#60. Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana
#61. We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine sacrifice we can lay on the altar - total submission.
Toni Sorenson
#62. The more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the more we cling to surface and style, the less we find underneath.
John F. Kavanaugh
#63. Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#65. Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.
Abraham J. Twerski
#66. Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.
Dan Davis
#67. To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate through daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions.
Robin S. Sharma
#69. 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
#70. The key is to realize that the value of your possessions, isn't the amount of money you spent to purchase them, it's the amount of pleasure you derive from using them. So, if you never use it, pass it on to someone who will.
Eden Tayadora
#71. It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
David Riesman
#72. Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.
Sunday Adelaja
#73. So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#74. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.
Christmas Humphreys
#75. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#76. Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
Fulton J. Sheen
#77. 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
#78. To feel unloved, to feel all alone in the world, hurts no matter who you are, or what possessions you have.
Melody Anne
#79. Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
Samuel Smiles
#80. Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."
Lino Rulli
#81. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.
Billy Graham
#82. I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#83. And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it
Dalia Sofer
#84. The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When
Rita Mae Brown
#85. To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
Theodor Mommsen
#86. Our possessions are dictating our free time. Sundays used to be for relaxing and eating, and now they're spent cleaning the garage. --pg55
Cristin Frank
#87. Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.
Kurt Vonnegut
#88. Children in the kingdom of God hold onto possessions loosely. They know that the King is powerful and generous, and they know that what they have is on loan anyway. They are quick to help those in need. The rich, on the other hand, are sorely tempted to trust in their riches.
New Growth Press
#89. Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Thomas Mann
#90. To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.
Laozi
#91. If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus Christ
#92. Youll never find your happiness in other people, places, money, possessions. It can only be found within a spiritual awaking deep in your soul!
Timothy Pina
#93. Life as a commodity, people as possessions. Enslavement had been part of the culture of those parts for thousands of years. The
Neil Gaiman
#94. The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.
Lee L Jampolsky
#95. The principle is timeless: If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord.
Randy Alcorn
#96. Someday I'll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let's just say this example is screaming "megalomaniac!" at me.
Charles Stross
#97. For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
John Burnside
#98. We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.
Eugene H. Peterson
#99. Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan't be allowed to vote, and I won't be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.
Courtney Milan
#100. 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
