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Quotes about possessions
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? (Howe Julia Ward)
To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same. (Howe Julia Ward)
Less is more. (Howe Julia Ward)
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. (Howe Julia Ward)
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The more we have the less we own. (Howe Julia Ward)
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind (Howe Julia Ward)
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. (Howe Julia Ward)
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? (Howe Julia Ward)
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. (Howe Julia Ward)
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. (Howe Julia Ward)
I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. (Howe Julia Ward)
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. (Howe Julia Ward)
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. (Howe Julia Ward)
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. (Howe Julia Ward)
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. (Howe Julia Ward)
How many are the things I can do without! (Howe Julia Ward)
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes. (Howe Julia Ward)
Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation. (Howe Julia Ward)
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. (Howe Julia Ward)
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. (Howe Julia Ward)
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