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“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.”

Scene Anxiety Photography Losing Photograph Possession Decline Clicks Shutters

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”

Thinking Eye Security Source Anxiety Possession Dazzle Security And Freedom Earthly Possessions

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.”

“First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.”

World Should Firsts Wells Body Voice Silence This World Drink Solitude Speech Anxiety Should Have Possession Tone Modesty Monk Food And Drink

Author:Saint Basil

“I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.”

Looks Self Sin Race Talent Calling Anxiety Possession Profession Insecurity Cheer Runners Treasured Sins Not

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”

Ifs Giving Heart Stills Happiness Inspiring Conditions Letting Go Anxiety Anger Possession Lovely Peace Is Every Step Freedom And Happiness Letting Go Of Anger Anger Inside

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.”

Long Self States Love Is Activity Anxiety Conscious Possession Unconscious Absent Identification

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.”

Way Use Used Anxiety Possession Goods Meant To Be Morrow Misuse

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.”

Giving Believe Faces Desire Certain Order Our Lives Imagine Achievement Anxiety Endure Satisfaction Possession Wide Invited Tempted Summit Cliffs Steep

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.”

Whole Care Anxiety Possession Breasts

Author:Ben Jonson

“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.”

Ifs Looks Facts Suffering Comfort Anxiety Possession Wealthy

Author:Dalai Lama

“We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.”

Care Goes On Anxiety Increase Possession Convenience Minimalism Multiplying Enlargement

Author:Anna Brackett

“Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.”

Produce Comfort Anxiety Increase Possession Chiefs Materialism Simple Life

Book:Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author