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“Who lives content with little possesses everything”
Nicholas Boileau
“We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
C.S. Lewis
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
“It was such a street fight that each possession was so important. We were down six. We were down eight, but we could never get that spurt to make something happen until the end of the game when it was too late. To my kids' credit, they never quit.”
Todd Hardesty
“We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is no value attached to the job, so you try to give your life more meaning. So you have to buy things to attach value to your money. The hole got harder to fill, so you fill the hole with possessions. It became desperate, your search for fulfillment. My life is a cautionary tale”
Jordan Belfort
“I love New York City; I've got a gun.”
Charles Barkley
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”
Epicurus
“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need”
St. Thomas Aquinas
