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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time. (Quote by - Latin proverb)

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. (Quote by - Doris Day)

Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

All my possessions for a moment of time. (Quote by - Queen Elizabeth I)

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience. (Quote by - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. (Quote by - A. Whitney Brown)

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. (Quote by - Walt Disney)

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. (Quote by - John Randolph)

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. (Quote by - Collis P. Huntingdon)

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. (Quote by - Anatole France)

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. (Quote by - Alice Thomas Ellis)

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him. (Quote by - M. F. K. Fisher)

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self. (Quote by - Linda Henley)

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their relations. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)

We are not the sum of our possessions. (Quote by - George Bush)

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. (Quote by - John Cudahy)

What we do not understand we do not possess. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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