Top 80 Possessions Quotes

I go through life accumulating possessions… I’ve always done it… and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

In our rich consumers’ civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

It’s like people think, ‘Oh you’re playing losing basketball. You’re possessions don’t matter.’ I feel like they matter even more because that’s when they’re truly watching if you’re developing or not.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn’t our fancy words and impressive possessions – it’s the condition of our hearts.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?

Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.

I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that’s what I’m here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I’m going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.

Possessions aren’t my raison d’etre.

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by movers, and often you can’t keep up payments.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Why not play the most possessions you can play if you’re the best defensively and offensively? Any time possessions are cut down, then a bad call, a missed shot then you have a chance to lose.

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

A lot of people are obsessed with their possessions, but that’s not right. It’s OK to own a lot of things as long as you’re willing to share them.

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family’s possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Other fans get antsy when their team’s offense struggles to score for a few possessions. Blazers fans give us standing ovations, like they’re trying to will their energy into us.

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I’m one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don’t mean much to me. They’re beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they’re ultimately not important.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

If you don’t have many possessions, then you don’t need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don’t need much… a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it’s very easy.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

One of my most treasured possessions is the letter my father wrote to me when I left home to join the Manchester United Class of 92.

Shooting at Coco Chanel’s apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, ‘Me Before You,’ which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, ‘I’m a Hollywood writer!’

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

I’ve been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume – four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall – made by a company called Denbigh.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Love is more important than material possessions.

I don’t like possessions.

I think I’ve always been a player who’s done better in the second half, who’s done better in the fourth quarter. That’s the fun time to play, when everything you’ve worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

In every game, there’s three teams out there. There’s the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. ‘Lamb’s Tales’ from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave’s ‘Golden Treasury.’ These two books, and the ‘Everyman’ edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you’re not being a slave to your possessions.

Possessions can be replaced – it’s people that can’t.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.