The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
~ Bertrand Russell
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
~ Paulo Coelho
What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.
~ T.f. Hodge
