Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
until he who possesses sapience comes, the one with knowledge shall be the hero
Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.
Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.
the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they’d be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth.
Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.
But charity is the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him. Moroni 7
Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.
Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.
If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the De...
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
