25 Quotes About Belongings

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.

I am rich because nothing belongs to me.

Three belongings impoverish: Love, hope and fake friendships.

There are ways to make room for more books and still have room to live.

Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding some perfect phrase that fits this moment exactly.

Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on.

[A]nger in its pure state is the measure of the way we are implicated in the world and made vulnerable through love in all its specifics: a daughter, a house, a family, an enterprise, a land or a colleague.

Before belonging to the world, you should belong to yourself, as only those who are not happy with their own existence search for it outside.