Clutter Quote by Karen Kingston

“Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No…

— Genevieve Behrend

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

— Eliza Haywood

“People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just…

— Adalbert Stifter

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent,…

— Epicurus

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more…

— Deepak Chopra

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we…

— Richard J. Foster

“Self-cherishing and self-grasping are different aspects of one mind. Self-grasping grasps at an inherently existent ‘I’, and self-cherishing believes that such an ‘I’ is…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

— Anonymous

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle

“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks…

— Louis Chunovic

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

— Vivian Gornick