Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.
Possessions only provide temporary happiness.
Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.
If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.