Possessions Quotes
495 Possessions quotes by 392 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Property is organized robbery.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?
— Elvis Costello
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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
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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
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When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
— Zoë Heller
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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[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
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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
— Paulo Coelho
Who Wrote These Possessions Quotes
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