193 Quotes About Possessions

A heart anchored in money will only drift away.

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Fearlessness. The hack for adults who had lost this quality was to buy cheap things. When there was no pressure to break an expensive object, one then used it, beats it up, and made it theirs. Overly fragile possessions we’re afraid of breaking almost always resulted in never being used. This may apply with people, too.

When you have power, money and prestige, you think you have something, but you have nothing.

If you keep running after possessions – after the so-called pleasures of life, you'll end up as a psychological as well as physiological wreck.

Are you rich or do you just have money?

If possessing everything is the ‘everything’ of my existence, maybe losing everything is the only ‘thing’ that I really need right now.

I don’t wish to possess anything so that I may be left free to experience everything.