Possessing Quotes

• Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Birthday, Peace, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

  Pliny the Elder

  Marriage, Education, Goal

  "The Letters of Pliny the Younger". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.

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• No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Government, Order, Long

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.305, Cambridge University Press

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Conceited, Genius

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Genius, Modesty, Little Women

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Lying

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fear, People, Worry

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• I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Men

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• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Travel, Memories

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Pushing, Equestrian

  "Reflections on Equestrian Art". Book by Nuno Oliveira, 1965.

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

  Louis C. K.

  Life, Comedian, Possession

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• If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Truth, Obnoxious

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2016

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• I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

  Inez Milholland

  Women, Sacrifice, Rights

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• A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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• For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Color, Orange

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• Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

  John Lennon

  Joy, Mind, Sorrow

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• If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

  Barbara Bush

  Basketball, Weakness, Dull

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• There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2015

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• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

  Napoleon Hill

  Happiness, Think And Grow Rich, Happy Inspirational

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Islamic, Russia

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• I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

  Harold Pinter

  Wise, Thinking, Literature

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