Possession Quotes

Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.

Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.

Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

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

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

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

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

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

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time.

When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured or valued by men who still possess it.

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time.

Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time.

Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.

It is unfortunate that many people today cannot appreciate the value that every man possesses.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Like life, love is a constant adventure and a constant process. It is not a possession.

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love, " I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.