You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Charlotte Eriksson Attachment Belongings Detachment Free Home Life Love Meditation Minimalism Philosophy

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Assets Being Content Belongings Controlling Forfeit Free Give Up Goods Happiness Joy Junk Less Let Go Lose Material More Needless Nonessential Owning Possessions Stuff Superfluous Surrender Things Throw Away Useless Win Yeild

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

~ Roz Chast

Roz Chast Belongings Cleaning Death Mourning Parents Perception

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Belongings Simplicity Success Values

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Action Belongings Care Children Cold Darkness Earthquake Family Fear Frantic Heartless Home House Importance Light Love Material Off Pelt Possessions Priorities Property Rain Safety Selfishness Truth Uncaring Value Wife Words

Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger, it keeps you confined away from your real belongings!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Belongings Comfort Danger Food For Thought High Self Esteem High Self Image Home Israelmore Ayivor Low Self Esteem Low Self Image Obscurity Refuge Security Self Esteem Self Image Treasures

Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding some perfect phrase that fits this moment exactly.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Belongings Moments Moments Of Being Thoughts Virginia Woolf

Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on.

~ Richmond Akhigbe

Richmond Akhigbe Belongings Disposed Dragging Along Embracing The Future Old Piece Past Thoughts

How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Anthony T. Hincks Belongings Expect Ignorance Internet Philosophy Safe Secure Seven Stupidity Worldly Years

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.

~ Osman Doluca

Osman Doluca Belongings Capitalism China Communism Expectation Materialism Russia

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

~ Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead Belongings Capitalism Possessions

People come in my house and say, “I like this.” I say, “Do you want it?” Isn’t that the Christian thing to do?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Stanley Victor Paskavich Belongings Christian Giving Sharing

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.

~ T.c. Boyle

T.c. Boyle Belongings Cohabitation Commitment Marriage Maturity Reliability Wives