193 Quotes About Possessions

It’s not what you have but who you are that counts.

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.

Alma decided she had to get out of the 'disastrous house' on the Hohe Warte.... Werfel had never found the grandeur of it comfortable and had often escaped elsewhere to write. They decided to rent it out. After packing up 10,000 books and 5,000 sheets of music, their paintings and furniture--'in reality junk for eternity, and baggage during everyday life'--she threw a party...[citing Alma's diary entry for June 15, 1937]

Things without people are as dead as the dead. It takes people to make them appear to breathe & live & have quality.

It is a rare individual who is not possessed by their possessions.

Having less often leads us to use our things more often and with more enjoyment, because we're not fighting our way through a welter of unwanted stuff.

People with no sense or appreciation of humor, Invigilator, always take money too seriously. Its possession, anyway.Which is why they spend all their time stacking coins, counting this and that, gazing lovingly over their hoards and so on. They're compensating for the abject penury everywhere else in their lives.Nice rings, by the way.

When your life is possession-centered, the important thing is what you have; when it is principle-centered, the important thing is who and what you are.

Don’t expel a man from his father’s property, Don’t reduce the nobles in their possessions.