Quotes of: Possessions Keyword

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

Dee Hock

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Samuel Johnson

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

James Boswell

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Jorge Luis Borges

A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions.

Debasish Mridha

It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.

David Mitchell

Good health and happiness are life’s most precious treasures. Those who possess them are blessed.

Ellen J. Barrier

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.

Breanna Sampson

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Gustave Flaubert

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

Jose Mourinho

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

David Brooks

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

Donna Lynn Hope

The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something; after coming through everything.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Yukio Mishima