Possessions Quotes

There is a wide difference between having poison and being poisoned. All apothecaries have poisons ready for special uses, but they are not consequently poisoned, because the poison is only in their shop, not in themselves; and so you many possess riches without being poisoned by them, so long as they are in your house or purse only, and not in your heart. It is the Christian's privilege to be rich in material things , and poor in attachment to them.

St. Francis de Sales

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

George Washington Carver

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.

Love me love my dog.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Mae West

Be unselfish in your love. Remember you are not the cat.

When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

George Washington Carver

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.

Love me love my dog.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Mae West

Be unselfish in your love. Remember you are not the cat.

When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

A heart anchored in money will only drift away.

Anthony Liccione

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them....Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928)

Clare Winger Harris

My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? They'll only hurt you later. Throw them away, my dear.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

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

Colson Whitehead

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.

Rius

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Patricia Highsmith

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.

Colson Whitehead

It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

I don't like Paradise,As they probably don't have obsessions there.

When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are." When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)"We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are

Olaotan Fawehinmi

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