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Possessions Quotes

"True wealth consists in not having many possessions, but in having few wants."

"Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours."

"The possession of anything begins in the mind."

"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

"A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff."

"Value is in the making. Value is not in the having"

"What fortune has made yours is not your own."

"All mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions"

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

"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul"

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body"