#possessions

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. ↗

— John Wooden

#eyes #great #knows #lord #material

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply

All my possessions for a moment of time. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#possessions #time

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#leave #people #permanently #possessions #repeal

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#actually #alignment #attain #begin #beliefs

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

— Bertrand Russell

#else #freely #living #more #more than anything

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful