Possessions

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- André Gide, 1869 - 1951

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
- J. Brotherton

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
- Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876 - 1972

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
- Van Wyck Brooks, 1886 - 1963