There must be more to life than having everything.
—Maurice Sendak
Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.
—Nancy Stahl
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity.
—Julie Garwood in Prince Charming
Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
—Barack Obama
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.
—Bias
The wise man carries his possessions within him.
—Colleen Wainwright
Possession is eleven points in the law.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.
—John Ruskin
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
—Laozi
To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.
—Pliny the Younger
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
—Terence
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
—Vida D. Scudder
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
—Unknown
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
—Unknown