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• A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Race, Order

  Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.772, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Lasts, Born

  Following the Equator ch. 42, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Henri Rousseau

  Luxury, Prosperity, Rich

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• Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Joy, Midst

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• No possession is gratifying without a companion.

  Seneca the Younger

  Companionship, Companion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• To produce things and to rear them,
  To produce, but not to take possession of them,
  To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
  To lead them, but not to master them -
  This is called profound and secret virtue.

  Laozi

  Happiness, Character, Profound

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• Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Sexuality

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• Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Orthodox, Orthodox Christian

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• Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Spring

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• Do not let me hear
  Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
  Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
  Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
  The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
  Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Men, Endless

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, War, Blessed

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• You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

  Michelle Obama

  Coffee, Shoes, Doors

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Hands, Library

  "Counsels and Maxims". Vol. 2, Ch. 22, § 257 "On Thinking for Yourself" as translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

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• Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

  Dan Davis

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• We are made loveless by our possessions.

  Elizabeth of Hungary

  Loveless, Made

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• Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

  Aberjhani

  Compassion, Empathy, Humanity

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• Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Hands, Progress

  "Homo Neanderthalensis Baltimore Sun". "The Impossible Mencken" by H. L. Mencken, June 29, 1925.

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• Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Sad, Grief, Loss

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• It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Life, Goal, Relish

  Dale REx Coman (1972). “The Endless Adventure”

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• Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Self Confidence, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

  Eric Hoffer

  Letting Go, Ideas, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Self

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• I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Squares, Feet

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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Greatness, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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