Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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.
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
We are not the sum of our possessions.
I felt I was owned by possessions.
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.
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.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
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 possessions of the rich are stolen property.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
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.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
I don't have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down.
Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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.
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'
