Possessions Quotes

• I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Value
  • Smile
  • Possessions

• 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 little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Forgotten
  • Grave
  • Parasite

• There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

  

  Eric Shipton
  • Experiences
  • Satisfying
  • Treasures

• In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Opposite
  • Characteristics
  • Possessions

• I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: “Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?” Unfortunately, too many people, when you try separating them from their material possessions and any and all activity, turn out to be like cheap golf balls. You unwind and unwind and unwind but you never get to the pure rubber core because there isn’t any.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Friendship
  • Learned
  • Balls

• Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Happiness
  • Opposite
  • Possessions

• The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Answers

• Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Support
  • Wisdom
  • Journey

• Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Security
  • Possessions
  • Concessions

• Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

  

  Nina Campbell
  • Friends
  • Abandon
  • Possessions

• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  

  Sallust
  • Pay
  • Gods
  • Gifts

• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

  

  Herodotus
  • Friend
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

  

  African Spir
  • Individuals
  • Possessions

• Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Imagine
  • Possessions
  • Millionaire

• Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

  

  Samuel Smiles
  • Character
  • Property
  • Possessions

• Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan’t be allowed to vote, and I won’t be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Future
  • Man
  • Control

• Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • World
  • Imagine

• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Conversation
  • Price
  • Americans

• God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • God
  • Possessions

• Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Attention
  • Insecure
  • Possessions

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