Anna C. Brackett Quotes

I already own more than any human being needs.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.