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Your Quotes for 28 March 2006 - Possessions

Some of the quotes today may seem like platitudes to those of you who are happily surrounded by the things you've acquired. Recently I've been agreeing with them more and more, particularly since the volume of my possessions started to become clear during the early parts of the move. As I was taking things out of boxes a little while ago, I was wondering why I was so carefully preserving software that I hadn't used in three years, and in all honesty will certainly never use again. I sincerely hope this awareness will help me unload a ton of my hard-gained Possessions soon. Maybe it will even keep me from buying more!

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

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