Belongings Quote by Albert Einstein

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these…

— Albert Einstein

“things are great, but living a truly amazing life has little to do with material possessions and everything to do with your heart and…

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“Physical beauty, however, was frequently more a detriment than an advantage if one wished ever to be respected and valued for one's mind.”

— Kathleen Morgan

“It's always best to look ahead and not backwards. Possessions are not important. Think of those beautiful porcelain pieces I had. Before they came…

— Nien Cheng

“Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

— Julie Garwood

“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.”

— Edward M. Hallowell

“The refusal to change by clinging onto superficial material wealth at any cost today, is a certain sentence of death tomorrow for all future…

— Alastair Agutter

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would…

— Nan Fairbrother

“In the world of most living things, neediness isn't especially attractive; wealthiness is.”

— David P. Barash