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• The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Religious, Knowledge, Ego

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

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• The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Teacher, Fighting, Path

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.110, Random House

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• I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

  Osamu Dazai

  Mean, Would Be, Lasts

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• It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Native American, Generosity

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• Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

  William Arthur Ward

  Basketball, Character, Humility

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Joy, Terror

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Love You, Eye

  "Coraline". Book by Neil Gaiman, January 24, 2002.

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• There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Artist, Two

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• What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

  Ted Hughes

  Writing, Reality, Trying

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• It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tree, Earth, Grows

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Giving, Mind

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• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Selfish, Caring, Social Taboos

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• A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Taken, Mind, Genius

  Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.4, Penguin

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• The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

  John Adams

  Mankind, Curse, Property

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor “Papers of John Adams”, Harvard University Press

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• Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love Is, Self, Long

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• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Husband, Wife

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• The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Loneliness, Ambition, Kissing

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

  Andre Gide

  Values

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• We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Special, Virtue, Lacking

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Numbers, Life Is

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.134, Lulu Press, Inc

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• He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

  Mary Balogh

  Blue, Sky, Heaven

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• For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Deceived, Wells

  "A Modest Proposal and Other Prose".

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• I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Giving, Solitude, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.38, Virginia Woolf

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