Possession Quotes

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

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.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

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

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

the possession of power brings on madness.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don't know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered.

I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.