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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Possessions Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Possessions

1.
The more we have the less we own.
Eckhart, Meister

2.
Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation.

3.
I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am.
Hunt, Trinidad

4.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Barney, Natalie Clifford

5.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Fromm, Erich

6.
I love stuff as much as the next guy, but IÆve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.
Colleen Wainwright

7.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

8.
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
Huntingdon, Collis P.

9.
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
John Ruskin

10.
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.
Teresa of Avila, St.

11.
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudder

12.
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

13.
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber

14.
Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

15.
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Didion, Joan

16.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Ruskin, John

17.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Marcel Proust

18.
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.
Pilgrim, Peace

19.
To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
Bhagavad Gita

20.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Younger

21.
The wise man carries his possessions within him.
Bias

22.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.
How many are the things I can do without!
Socrates

24.
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.
Barack Obama

25.
To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.
Lao-tzu

26.
I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.
Erica Eisdorfer

27.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
Einstein, Albert

28.
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.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
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.
Pilgrim, Peace

30.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Terence


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