If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..
Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
