Quotes of: Possessions Keyword

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Max Lerner

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Ben Elton

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

Money, Possessions and Eternity

At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess is my Freedom to choose, my Freedom to Live,and my Freedom to be Happy.-RVM

Rvm

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

William H. Wharton

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Meir Kahane

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old.

Greek

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Voice of Reason

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Pliny the Elder

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Susan Sontag

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Rod Serling

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Moses Mendelssohn

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek