Possessed Quotes - Page 3

• When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

  Brian Tracy

  Character, People, Calm

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• So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

  Rene Descartes

  Lying, Risk, Curiosity

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Leisure, Physicians

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Men, Age

  "Rights of Man, Part I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. 1791.

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• All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Echoes, Soul, Doubt

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• Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Self, Way, Calm

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• It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.

  Alice Munro

  Book, Boys, Men

  Alice Munro (2010). “The View From Castle Rock”, p.226, Random House

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• Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

  Khalil

  Love Is, Thinking, Desire

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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is 'icon,' 'star,' 'hero,' ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of the human. They give us a taste of the possibilities of greatness in ourselves.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Stars, Hero, Mean

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• Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

  Stormie Omartian

  Jesus, Receiving

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• In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one’s own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them.

  Hannah

  Mean, Self, Actors

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• This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself.

  Hannah

  Men, Years, Free Gifts

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• We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

  Alan Redpath

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Fire, Flames

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• Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, World, Stuff

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

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• I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Warrior, Light, Medicine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing

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• There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cousin, May

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Children, Character, Acceptance

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• I learned how to sumon,
  from somewhere deep within,
  the extra will I didn't know I possessed.
  Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again,
  gave me the boost of confidence
  I would rely on for years to come.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Knowing, Years, Deep Within

  Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Arkush (2011). “The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring”, p.40, Penguin

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• The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive.

  Terry Brooks

  Fall, Magic, World

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• He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.

  Herbert Kalmus

  Christmas, Men, Principles

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• Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Faith, Men, Desire

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• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

  Plutarch

  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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