193 Quotes About Possessions

I resist the urge to claim some of the pretty purple flowers for myself, though Gaewha tries the scissors and then clutches some flowers in her hand, tightly, fiercely. We have never been allowed possessions of our own. [...] Gaewha huddles in a corner with the scissors, ready to defend her flowers to the death.

A man's earthly possessions are in one of two places - the place he left them in or the place his significant other moved them to without telling him.

I don't like Paradise,As they probably don't have obsessions there.

You only truly possess that which you cannot lose in a shipwreck.

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928)

What I currently have are the resources that allow me to obtain what I don’t. Therefore, to forget what I ‘do have’ in the pursuit of what I ‘don’t’ is to insure that whatever I don’t have, I won’t have.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.