The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer they merely For the...
I am dead because I lack desire, I lack desire because I think I possess. I think I possess because I do not try to give. In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself; Trying to give of yo...
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. …It instantly dese...
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it su...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~ Jane Austin. Arguably one of the best opening lines in literary history (I said ARGUABLY doesn't mean I want to argue). However, ...
They were no longer standing the way he'd stood them, no longer engaged in the glorious basking that overwhelmed him on the headland. They were leaning toward the light now, craning toward it. He’d been dead wrong about the blitheness. The buttercu...
Time is the strongest force the universe possesses.
Work to build your nation, not your possessions.
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Sarah's friendship was one of my most treasured possessions.
A child of God, special possession.
Identical twins do not possess identical souls.
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
