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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
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Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
Pensees (1669) -
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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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.
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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
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Liberty: One of imagination's most precious possessions.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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