#possession

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

— Jane Austen

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #must

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

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

We are not the sum of our possessions. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#possessions #sum

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ↗

— Isocrates

#our #possessions #wisdom

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#book #closed #eyes #focused #gandhi

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#definition #liberate #poets #possession #soldiers

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#extreme #go #grew #had #i

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#stuff #things #beauty

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#cases #countries #essential #even #made