It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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