Our Possessions Quotes
52 quotes by 45 authors
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We are not the sum of our possessions.
— George H. W. Bush
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
— Samuel Johnson
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Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
— Anna Brackett
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The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.
— Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
— Michael Wright
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We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up…
— George Carlin
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
— Isocrates
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Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever…
— Edward Gibbon
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A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.…
— Edward Gibbon
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Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,…
— Epictetus
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
— Hosea Ballou
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For…
— Randy Alcorn
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Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is…
— Billy Graham
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A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
— Jerry Bridges
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The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.
— Pope Francis
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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
Who Wrote These Our Possessions Quotes
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