Possessionless Quotes & Sayings

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid ... Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. — Coleman Dowell

Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained. — Debasish Mridha

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create. — Sharon Tate

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left. — Thomas Szasz

Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it. — Jaromir Jagr

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be. — Criss Jami

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it. — Marc Anthony

Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics. — Anna Quindlen

Who called it? I called it! That's right, uh huh! — Penny Reid

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something
some new skeleton
was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous. — Laini Taylor

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. — Grandma Moses

It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function — Gerard Way

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. — Jane Austen