Happiness does not consist in how many possessions you own.
幸福不在于你拥有多少财产。
If not, your possessions are safest in a pocket with a button-down flap.
如果没有，你的物品放在有纽扣的口袋里是最安全的。
If I save money from not buying possessions I don't want, really need or use then I can use it to travel more.
如果我存钱，不用来买我真的需要用到，但是我不想要的财产，那么我会把钱更多的花在旅行上。
Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.
其实这三个想法都不真确，拥有物质只能提供短暂的快乐，因为再好的东西也会令人日久生厌，到头来必然又期望得到更新、更大、更好的。
Often we don't really need those possessions as much as we might think, and even when we do have them, we're not as secure as we might think.
很多时候我们并不像想象中那样有多么多么需要这些财产。
Researchers like Diener are trying to convey what philosophers have long written: True happiness lies in the pursuit of deeply held goals, not in fleeting pleasures and possessions.
像Diener这样的研究人员一直试图传达这种哲学观点：正真的幸福在于追求深远的目标，而不是消磨快乐和财产。
Ladurie notes that for the village's shepherds, in particular, wealth was not measured in terms of money, property, or possessions.
拉杜里特别注意到这个村庄里的牧人们的财富并不以钱币、财物或所有物等形式来衡量。
But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
倘若他们不带兵器和你们一同过去，就要在迦南地你们中间得产业。
It was about this time that I began to realise that happiness does not come from doing what other people expect you to do, from material possessions, or from social standing.
这时候我意识到幸福并不来自于做周围人期待你做的事情，也不来自于物质财富，也不来自于社会地位。
John Lennon was sometimes criticized for not practicing what he preached. Like how he sang about imaging no possessions but lived in a million dollar apartment.
有时候，约翰·连侬会受到批评，说他没有实行他所宣扬的的事情，例如他在歌唱一无所有时却住在价值百万美元的公寓里。
I feel free and more alive by not having any possessions or physical ties rather than what some people might see as being deprived.
有些人可能认为没有过多的物质羁绊的生活太过贫瘠，但我却觉得这样的生活更加自由更加鲜活。
This is not a bad alliance, as you both have the same interests where money, possessions and security are concerned.
这对搭档看上去不错，你俩志同道合，无论在经济、财产还是安全感上的看法都非常一致。
The lazy man does not roast his game, but the diligent man prizes his possessions.
懒惰的人，不烤打猎所得的；殷勤的人，却得宝贵的财物。
God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead.
就是人蒙神赐他资财，丰富，尊荣，以致他心里所愿的一样都不缺，只是神使他不能吃用，反有外人来吃用。
Embrace a lifestyle that focuses on your values, not your possessions.
接纳专注于个人价值而不是个人拥有的生活方式。
Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock.
因为二人的财物群畜甚多，寄居的地方容不下他们，所以不能同居。
You feel clean and spare, not just because you're burdened with fewer possessions, but because you're burdened with less emotional baggage that you're hiding in the back of your mind.
你会感觉神清气爽，这不仅仅是因为你财物所累，更因为你潜藏在内心的心理负担减轻了。
Our security is not based on our possessions, positions, credentials, or on comparisons with others; rather, it flows from our own integrity to “true north” principles.
我们的安全感不是建立在我们拥有多少财富，有多高的地位，和别人的攀比等等之上的，而是从我们遵循内在方向感和诚信原则的自然流露。
You are not your job. You are not the amount of cash you have in the bank. You are not your possessions.
你所从事的工作并不能代表你。你在银行的现金数额不能代表你。你的财产也不能代表你这个人。
Not being tied down by possessions or distractions also means you have more time for last-minute adventures.
不被财产或分心的事所束缚也意味着你有更多时间做最后时刻的冒险。
You are not your job. You are not your bankroll. You are not the sum of your possessions.
你的工作不是你的全部。你的工资单也不是你的全部。你更不是你所有财产的总和。
All her life, Marie had demonstrated the truth of this simple principle: happiness will not come from worldly possessions or fortune.
玛利的整个一生表明了这样一个简单原则的真谛：幸福不是来源于尘世的财产或财富；
The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus taught how possessions were not to be used.
财主和拉撒路的比喻则教导我们财产是如何变得一文不值的。
Let her beauty be her wedding dower, for me and my possessions she esteems not.
就让她的美貌当她的嫁妆吧；因为她瞧不起我和我的财产。
You can have whatever you want, and change it whenever you want, so possessions are not seen as necessary.
你可以得到你想得到的一切，无论何时你都可以改变它，所以财产不再视为必须。
Those pulling together and moving away from the current paradigm may choose to end the over consumption of objects and possessions that are really not needed to sustain your existence.
那些走到一起齐心协力来离开当前范式的人们，可以选择来结束事实上对维生是并不需要的过度消耗商品和财物。
If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.
如一肋未人在他得为产业的城市出卖的房屋，没有赎回，在喜年仍可收回，因为肋未城中的房屋，是他们在以色列子民中所得的不动产。
Untidiness, hoarding, procrastination and improvisation are not bad habits, the authors argue, but often more sensible than meticulous planning, storage and purging of possessions.
本书两位作者称，凌乱无章、乱堆乱放、拖拉延迟以及毫无计划的随心所欲并不算坏习惯，只是较容易察觉，相比之下，那些未雨绸缪地规划、小心翼翼地存放及处置个人物品的行为（的缺陷）就不那么明显。
Untidiness, hoarding, procrastination and improvisation are not bad habits, the authors argue, but often more sensible than meticulous planning, storage and purging of possessions.
本书两位作者称，凌乱无章、乱堆乱放、拖拉延迟以及毫无计划的随心所欲并不算坏习惯，只是较容易察觉，相比之下，那些未雨绸缪地规划、小心翼翼地存放及处置个人物品的行为（的缺陷）就不那么明显。
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