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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.
by Peace Pilgrim (Activist, American , born in 1908) keywords: age, anything, cannot, great, many, materialistic, our, outlived, possessed, possesses, possessions, relinquish, us , usefulness 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.
by Peace Pilgrim (Activist, American , born in 1908) keywords: actually, alignment, attain, begin, beliefs, bringing, find, give, inner, into, just, last, life, live, must, only, peace, possessions, then, way , your 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.
by Peace Pilgrim (Activist, American , born in 1908) keywords: burdens, care, enough, freedom, great, happiest, living, much, possessions, simplicity, take, them, those, too , unnecessary I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
by Plutarch (Philosopher, Greek , born in 2046) keywords: excel, excellent, extent, knowledge, possessions, power, rather, than , would The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
by Georges Rouault (Artist, French , born in 1871) keywords: artificial, certain, death, face, give, off, pleasures, possessions, richness, sickness, smell, spiritual, taste , world It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: anything, else, freely, living, more, nobly, possessions, preoccupation, prevents, than , us Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
by Mort Sahl (Journalist, Canadian , born in 1927) keywords: conservatives, deserve, everything, feel, liberals, possessions, stolen, their , unworthy 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.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: adorn, among, any, away, beautiful, because, decline, liberty, personal, possessions, private, should, sort, take, things, walk, wealth, world , would 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.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: behind, better, children, exertions, expected, happier, his, hope, least, make, man, many, pathetic , possessions Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
by Friedrich Schiller (Dramatist, German , born in 1759) keywords: body, dust, fame, great, into, life, lives, name, noblest, possessions, still , sunk When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
by Morrie Schwartz (Educator, American , born in 1916) keywords: absurd, fences, how, individualize, look, our, ourselves, possessions, see , way 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.
by Tony Shalhoub (Actor, American , born in 1953) keywords: career, emotional, emphasis, health, material, mental, much, physical, possessions, put, relationships, those, toll, too, took , work 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.
by W. Clement Stone (Businessman, American , born in 1902) keywords: abundance, alone, give, giving, greatest, intangible, invisible, most, possessions, powers, precious, receive, take, them, valued, will , your 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.
by Peter Stuyvesant (Public Servant, Dutch , born in 1612) keywords: blessed, england, even, gates, hath, here, jerusalem, lighted, lord, peace, possessions, praise, secured, threatened, torch, war, where, ye , your 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.
by Peter Stuyvesant (Public Servant, Dutch , born in 1612) keywords: against, commissioners, design, directed, england, force, frigates, honors, imagined, island, long, new, possessions, rather, reform, than, these, those, warlike , your 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.
by John Wooden (Coach, American , born in 1910) keywords: because, eyes, great, knows, lord, material, matters, meaningless, possessions, really, reputations, scores , winning 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.
by Gary Wright (Musician, American , born in 1943) keywords: because, changed, content, even, happy, how, india, life, little, outlook, possessions, profoundly, reverse, see, very , west
