193 Quotes About Possessions

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

The greatest gifts are not the things that please us. Rather, they are the things that grow us. Therefore, we may have gladly received an abundance of possessions, but we may not have accepted a single gift.

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.

There's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of.

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.

The garnets,' Sniff moaned. 'I didn't get a single one.'Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: 'I know. But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Nothing is so important you have to have it.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.