After all my possessions had been burned God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

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.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

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.

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.

All mankind... being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his life health liberty or possessions.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

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.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

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.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

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.

Treasure your relationships not your possessions.

Of all our possessions wisdom alone is imortal.

This avidity alone of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends is insatiable perpetual universal and directly destructive of society.

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.

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.