Possessions quotations

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◆ Better to trust in the God who lavishes care on the whole earth. Than to spend our lives worrying about money and possessions.

- Marianette Carbito99

◆ Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e

- Dalai Lama98

◆ No man can lose what he never had

- Izaak Walton98

◆ After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.

- Robert Bradbury98

◆ It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

- Washington Irving98

◆ What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

- Seneca98

◆ Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

- Andre Gide98

◆ There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it

- Robert Collier98

◆ An Englishman's home is his castle

- English Proverb98

◆ Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed

- Desiderius Erasmus98

◆ In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

- Ted Koppel98

◆ The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens

- John Maynard Keynes98

◆ Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

- Buddha98

◆ If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh98

◆ There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession

- Fran Lebowitz98