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• People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

  Mabel Seeley

  People, Fine, Feels

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• Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Order, Issues

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains,
  And drives the mist of dullness from the brains,
  The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies,
  And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Views, Brain

  George Crabbe (1855). “Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.383

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• My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Son, Soul, Passing Away

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Believe, Greatest Treasure, Self

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• We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch tv too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

  Bob Moorehead

  Life, Hate, Tired

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• Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

  David O. McKay

  Flower, Sunshine, Live Laugh Love

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• It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Enjoyment, Mere

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• Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Land, Long, Giving

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• The problem is not gun possession; the problem is manufacturing guns - who's making these guns and how they gettin' out on the street? There shouldn't even be guns for us to possess. If there wasn't any, then it wouldn't be a problem. So we need to go to the source of the problem. They're making all these wars so they can make more weapons and sell them, and they wanna kill more people - they need population control,'cause people have to die in order for this world to continue. That's the government's goal right now.

  Prodigy

  War, Gun, People

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I think we'll start defining wealth and success differently and develop new approaches to consumption. Things that have always signified wealth and security - home ownership, new cars, luxury goods - have become a burden for many people and will be replaced by more experiential consumption like travel and recreation, self-improvement, and so on. By divesting themselves of certain big-ticket possessions that have been keeping them tied down, people will gain a new freedom to live more meaningful lives. Changes in consumption and lifestyle are key to Great Resets.

  Richard Florida

  Meaningful, Life Changing, Home

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

  George Minot

  Pride, Men, Land

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• The people who have wealth and the people who earn money are going to be a little reluctant to part with it, particularly if they earned it fair and square. So, what has to happen is that there has to be a drumming in of a critique that causes shame, a sense of look, my country and even I am in possession of stolen goods you might say and therefore, the government becomes the instrument to get some of those back.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, People, Wealth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Fall, Reflection

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Reflection, Envy, Achievement

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• Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Husband, Fall

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• Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Ego, Source

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• Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Attachment, Desire

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• When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

  Lady Gaga

  Travel, Littles

  "Lady Gaga lives the simple life" by Lauren Parvizi, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2010.

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• We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

  George Carlin

  Paradox, Values

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• Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

  Dorothy Day

  War, Hero, Men

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