Aldous Huxley Quotes

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

A lot of people are obsessed with their possessions, but that's not right. It's OK to own a lot of things as long as you're willing to share them.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.