Possessions Quotes

495 Possessions quotes by 392 unique authors

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… — George Santayana
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. — Morrie Schwartz
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all… — Tony Shalhoub
Property is organized robbery. — George Bernard Shaw
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the… — Lysander Spooner
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.… — W. Clement Stone
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures… — Eckhart Tolle
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind… — Dada Vaswani
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and… — George Edward Woodberry
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is… — John Wooden
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why… — Nicole Krauss
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… — Paulo Coelho
Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"? — Elvis Costello
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic… — Paulo Freire
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — ZoÃ« Heller
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. — Paulo Coelho
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would… — Daniel Webster
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching… — Alan Paton

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