Belonging Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

— Francois Mauriac

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

— James A. Michener

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in…

— C. S. Lewis

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

— Loren Eiseley

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And keeps the palace of the soul.

— Edmund Waller

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured…

— Andrew Carnegie

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

— Ian Mcewan

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson