"You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, n..."
- Charlotte Eriksson
"The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win."
- Anthony Liccione
"As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your pare..."
- Roz Chast
"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the ..."
- Albert Einstein
"And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ..."
"Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding s..."
- Virginia Woolf
"Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on."
- Richmond Akhigbe
"How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?"
- Anthony T. Hincks
"Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own."
- Osman Doluca
"Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?"
- Colson Whitehead