Possession Quotes - Page 20

• Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Texas, Cities

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

  94 Copy quote

• Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Lying, Mercy

  4 Copy quote

• Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Opposites, Suffering, Doe

  "'Citadelle' ('The Wisdom of the Sands')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1948.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Lying, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

  John le Carre

  Tyrants, House, Tyranny

  10 Copy quote

• Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Expectations, Great Expectations, Poor

  17 Copy quote

• Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Love, Love Is, Graves

  5 Copy quote

• As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

  9 Copy quote

• Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Opportunity, Goal

  9 Copy quote

• A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Needs, Shells

  4 Copy quote

• In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Latin, Mean, People

  4 Copy quote

• Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

  George D. Prentice

  Joy, Satisfaction, Materials

  7 Copy quote

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

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Imagination, Expectations, Pleasure

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.62

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Entry is not equivalent to possession.

  Stephen Fry

  Entry, Property

  7 Copy quote

• Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

  Amelia Barr

  Dream, Sight, Discipline

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.137, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Hands, Would Be, Peculiar

  5 Copy quote

• People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

  Nido R Qubein

  Jobs, People, Principles

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Reality, Love Is, Giving

  145 Copy quote

• . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Pain, Distance, Evil

  4 Copy quote

• Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love Is, Soul, Feelings

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

  Theresa Villiers

  Valuable, Prodigals

  4 Copy quote

• The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

  Robert Payne

  Military, Oligarchy, Wealth

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  Sallust

  Sacrifice, Hair, Offering

  15 Copy quote

• Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

  Jean Racine

  Anticipation, Felicity

  9 Copy quote