Able Quote by Sydney J. Harris

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

— Simone Weil

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

— Dan Davis

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed…

— Peace Pilgrim

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

— Kathy Hilton

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

— Charles Caldwell Ryrie

Once we cease to pursue something, we cannot possess it.

— Terry Mark

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live.…

— Aldous Huxley

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

— Walter Hilton

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another.…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

— Robert Frost

No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

— David Adam