Quotes about Possessions
But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.
— Ernest Hemingway
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
— St. John Chrysostom
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.
— Aldous Huxley
He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.
— Aldous Huxley
Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
— Henri Nouwen
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
— Francis Schaeffer
He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories
— Alice Walker
When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.
— Joe Girard
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
— Watchman Nee
Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
— Rick Warren
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
— Earl Nightingale