Quotes about Possession

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life—an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost.' To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime.

A belief is not just an idea that you possess; it is an idea that possesses you.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Whether for present possessions or future prospects, there is no family so well off as "the whole family in heaven and earth." Whether you look at what they have now, or will have hereafter, there is no family like the family of God.