"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."
― Peace Pilgrim
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Age
More From Peace Pilgrim
- "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."
- "This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
- "Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."
More In Age
- "Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."― Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."― Alva Myrdal
- "I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my age, but they were doing it."― Eddie Vedder