#possessions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #possessions, aggregated by home.social.
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Wealth is not his who hath it, but his who enjoyes it.
[La robba no n’e di chi la fa, m’a di chi la gode.]James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in Italian” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85279/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #enjoyment #possessions #wealth
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SYDNEY: You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. I tell you there is no despair like the despair of the man who has everything.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Poor Richard, Act 1 (1965)More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/30990/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #despair #everything #happiness #hope #misery #money #poor #possessions #poverty #rich #unhappiness #wealth #pursuitofhappiness
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Better is a little with content than much with contention.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #conflict #contention #contentment #discontent #moderation #possessions #riches #satisfaction #sufficient #trouble #wealth
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A quotation from Basil the Great
You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love.
[ἀλλὰ μὴν φαίνῃ ἔχων κτήματα πολλά. Πόθεν ταῦτα; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι τὴν οἰκείαν ἀπόλαυσιν προτι μοτέραν τῆς τῶν πολλῶν παραμυθίας ποιούμενος. Ὅσον οὖν πλεονάζεις τῷ πλούτῳ, τοσοῦτον ἐλλείπεις τῇ ἀγάπῃ.]Basil of Caesarea (AD 330-378) Christian bishop, theologian, monasticist, Doctor of the Church [Saint Basil the Great, Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας]
Sermon (368 ca.), "To the Rich [Ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς πλουτούντας]" [tr. Schroeder (2009)]More about this quote: wist.info/basil-of-caesarea/70…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #basilthegreat #saintbasil #charity #love #possessions #rich #riches #selfindulgence #selfishness #wealth #wealthy #misanthropy #enjoyment #pleasure
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Belgian Photographer Creates Extensive Catalog of Personal Possessions
📰 Original title: Woman Painstakingly Photographs and Catalogs Every Single Possession
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/belgian-photographer-creates-extensive-catalog-of-personal-possessions/?redirpost=df93eeb0-4957-418a-af5a-a1827ce4d024
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“Silly” thoughts… – part 2
A few days ago, I shared my first "silly" thoughts toot in a blog post. I wrote another toot, so I wanted to make another blog post as well, featuring this thought. I do think that I wrote about this, in a different way, a while ago. That post can be found here: Stand still & look around… I'll try to write this post from a different perspective. I don't know if I'll really succeed... But I'll try nevertheless. 😉 I'll share a shameful confession, below the read more bit... And then I'll try to explain it, in the best way I can. Because I know that thoughts, feeling, and emotions are very personal, and they can mean different things to different people. 😊 […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/silly-thoughts-part-2/
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A quotation from James Shirley
All buildings are but monuments of death,
All clothes but winding-sheets for our last knell,
All dainty fattings for the worms beneath,
All curious musique, but our passing bell;
Thus death is nobly waited on, for why?
All that we have is but death’s livery.James Shirley (1596–1666) English poet, playwright
Poem (1639), “Fatum Supremum,” Facetiae: Wits Recreations, Epigram 170 (1640)More about this quote: wist.info/shirley-james/82604/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshirley #death #materialgoods #mementomori #mortality #possessions #worldlygoods
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A quotation from Bruce Holland Rogers
And so, you see, simplicity
Requires that our lot
Be that we exit, when we must,
With only what we brought.Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) American author [pseud. Hanovi Braddock]
“A Common Night,” Fantastic Alice (1995) [ed. Margaret Weis]More about this quote: wist.info/rogers-bruce-holland…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #death #mortality #possessions
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Hype for the Future 60F: Capitals of the Caribbean
Overview This post is dedicated to the capital cities and capital towns of the different islands located within the Caribbean, including, but not limited to, the Greater and Lesser Antilles chains. Also to be included are the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, though not San Andrés nor surrounding outlying islands of Colombia significantly closer to the Nicaraguan coast than the Colombian. Sovereign States Bahamas 🇧🇸: Nassau Cuba 🇨🇺: Havana Jamaica 🇯🇲: […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/hype-for-the-future-60f-capitals-of-the-caribbean/
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A quotation from Roger Corless
We make ourselves miserable by first closing ourselves off from reality and then collecting this and that in an attempt to make ourselves happy by possessing happiness. But happiness is not something I have, it is something I myself want to be. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over my body.
Roger J. Corless (1938–2007) Anglo-American religious academic, Buddhist scholar, ecumenicist
The Vision of Buddhism: the Space under the Tree, Part 2 “The Space” (1989)More info about this quote: wist.info/corless-roger/34444/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rogercorless #error #happiness #hoarding #materialism #meme #misery #possessions #reality
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-06-26), The Adventurer, No. 67More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/8509/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #enjoyment #pleasure #wealth #avarice #desire #dissatisfaction #envy #greed #materialism #possessions #property
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The point of #possessions in our lives is to have a small to decent sized #collection of stuff (whether it’s books, clothes, physical media, decor, etc…) that’s tailored to our #interests that we cherish for as long as we still can and not see the purpose of getting more.
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1933-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #achievement #avarice #creativity #effort #greed #happiness #loveyourneighbor #possessions #profit #service #wealth #work
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The whole “protect the #children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their #possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term #investment”
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Not what I Have but what I Do is my Kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 4 (1834)More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/78773…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #action #initiative #possessions #wealth
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-09-27), The Spectator, No. 177Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/78303…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #charity #death #giving #givingaway #possessions #wealth
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"Help, I #Hoard Things"
The #Science Behind Why We Hold Onto #Possessions and Expert Tips on Letting Them Go
https://nicenews.com/health-and-wellness/hoard-things-expert-tips-learn-let-go/
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But to go mad with watching, nights and days,
To stand in dread of thieves, fires, runaways
Who filch and fly, — in these if wealth consist,
Let me rank lowest on the paupers’ list.
[An vigilare metu exanimem, noctesque diesque
formidare malos fures, incendia, servos,
ne te conpilent fugientes, hoc iuvat? Horum
semper ego optarim pauperrimus esse bonorum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 76ff (1.1.76-79) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75767/
#quote #quotes #quotation #anxiety #fear #money #paranoia #possessions #poverty #riches #sleeplessness #threat #treasure #wealth #worry
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A quotation from Matthew Henry
His wealth: He was very rich, v. 2. He was very heavy, so the Hebrew word signifies; for riches are a burden, and those that will be rich do but load themselves with thick clay, Hab. ii. 6. There is a burden of care in getting them, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account, at last, to be given up concerning them. Great possessions do but make men heavy and unwieldy.
Matthew Henry (1662-1714) English writer, religious philosopher
Exposition of the Old and New Testament, Genesis 13:2 (1706)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/henry-matthew/75732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #burden #money #possessions #riches #wealth #bible
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Wealth,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 3Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #desire #dissatisfaction #envy #greed #lust #possessions #satisfaction #unsatisfied #want #emerson
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Here's episode of the Mind & Desire podcast, released earlier to my Substack subscribers, and now available to the general public. Some reflections about lifestyle, possessions, and choices to keep thing spurred existentially by our recent move
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/episode-16-the-things-we-hold-on
#Podcast #Possessions #Need #Desire #Lifestyle #Thought #Habit
