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• It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts.
  In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Effort, Solitude, Important

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Memories, Home

  Margaret Drabble (2010). “The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, War, Mind

  William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc

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• The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Use, Facts

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• If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .

  Orson Pratt

  Faith, Mind, Bears

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• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

  Philemon

  Wine, Men, Purple

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• A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Good Woman, Gains

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• There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Acres, Bloodshed

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Important, Principles, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

  Bob Proctor

  Imagination, Goal, Creative

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 03, 2011

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• If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Sin, Satan

  Matthew Henry, J. Gill, Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Exposition of I and II Samuel”, p.161, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Soul, Whole, Ifs

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• My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you'll never be happy.

  Patrick Henry

  Jesus, Wish, Christ

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• There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

  Harriet Martineau

  Land, Mind, Pieces

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.411, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Giving, Grace, Favors

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• It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

  Walter Hilton

  Easier, Renounce, Worldly

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• Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Godly, Contentment

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.84, NavPress

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• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

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

  Thomas Merton

  Imagination, Trust In God, Hope In God

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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

  Boethius

  Single Mom, Perfect, Moments

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• Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Natural, Should

  "The Needed Resurgence of Trade Schools" by Tobias Roberts, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2017.

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• Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

  Oswald Chambers

  Conflict, Tested

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.494, Discovery House

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• Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

  Albert Einstein

  Stones, Necks

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• Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mark, Fraud

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• Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

  J. C. Ryle

  Naked, Earth

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.175, Editora Dracaena

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