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

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

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

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

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

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

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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.

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.

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

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

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.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

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

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

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.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

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.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.