Possessions Quotes

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

In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Those who possess nothing and yet enjoy everything have no fear of losing anything.

Abundance is not defined by possessions, but it is defined by inner perceptions.

To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy.

Earthly possessions are transient and ephemeral. Giving away love creates ripples that last for some time.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

One of the most painful realizations in life is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along that you never knew you had.

Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.

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

Unfortunately, we do not often see the advantages in the power of values and virtues. We are easily taken away by physical wealth, material possessions and the power of money.

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

Life is not about possessions, it is about purpose, perseverance and passion.

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

We can fill our lives with ‘stuff, ’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Material possessions do not last, but memories last forever.

While small minds were bragging about their material possessions, great minds were busy expanding their assets.

No level of pleasure from any material possession compares to the feeling of unconditional happiness.

Don't complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.

A very disappointing outcome is always destined to happen to anyone who chases material things in search of happiness.

When you define yourself with your material possessions, you would likely attract those who would do anything humanly possible to come into your life to take advantage of you.

A man with no humility and integrity can only impress small minds with his worldly possessions .

If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.

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

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

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?

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.

The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

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.

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?