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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

— Peace Pilgrim

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

— Hamish Bowles

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

— Bruce Lee

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

— Simone Weil

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

— Yoko Ono

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

— Alexis Wright

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

— Sara Teasdale

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

— Bertrand Russell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

— Morihei Ueshiba

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

— Ursula K. Le Guin