Possessing Quotes - Page 12

• It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Inspirational, Creativity, Creating

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• Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

  Joseph Pilates

  Self, Practice, Desire

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• Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

  Laozi

  Giving, Credit, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Europe, People

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

  William James

  Best Effort, Forget, Effort And Hard Work

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• Art is a way of possessing destiny.

  Marvin Gaye

  Art, Destiny, Way

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• Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

  Henri Matisse

  Color

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Men, Light

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• If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the fear is there that if you don't dominate you will be lost and the other will dominate, so they continuously fight. Husbands and wives, lovers, go on fighting; the fight is for existence, to survive. The fear is there, "I may be lost in the other."

  Rajneesh

  Love, Husband, Fighting

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• Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Writing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.48, Ballantine Books

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• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

  Sara Teasdale

  Friendship, Women, Memorable

  Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

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• All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

  Edmund Burke

  Trust, Power, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.496

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