Quotes of: Possessions Keyword

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this a...

A Little Exercise for Young Theologians

Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the sea. It is all a matter of the wheel coming full-circle. For the sophisticated system of mental reactions to which we finally giv...

The Art Of Forgetting The Unpleasant

These violators responded only as cowards could. They ran.

A Gilded Cages Preview: Possession

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

Billy Baldwin

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

The Temporary Wife

When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction,lack of trust,lack of understanding,jealousy and possessiveness are produced

Nirja

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Elder

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

Ted Nugent

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Mahatma Gandhi

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Maria Lassnig

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Raoul Vaneigem

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Madame de Stael

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

David O. McKay

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Lao Tzu

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison