“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.”— Ali ibn Abi Talib, goodreads.com
“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“The quality of owning freezes you forever in 'I,' and cuts you off forever from the 'we'”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“In the future, your relationships have all ended. Your body is dirt. Your possessions are buried, burned, or recycled after eons have passed. In the big picture of time, you’ve already lost everything. Fear of loss is clinging to what is already gone.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.com
“Gradually we become tired of the old, of what we safely possess, and we stretch out our hands again. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some more distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com