Material possessions Quote by Dillon Burroughs

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

— Bertrand Russell

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.”

— Amor Towles

“What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You own the things you own and they in turn own you.”

— J.L. Collins

“The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick…

— Oscar Wilde

“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.”

— Moazzam Shaikh

“Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if…

— Oscar Wilde

“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.”

— Edmund Blunden

“Never get attached to possessions…. They’re just things and you can always get more things.”

— Simon R. Green

“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but the fewness of my wants.”

— Joseph Brotherton

“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”

— T.F. Hodge