Quotes
Quotes about Possessions
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran.
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.
The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simpleâyet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
All my possessions for a moment of time
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
We are not the sum of our possessions.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
