Possession Quotes

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

A possession can't make you happy.

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.