Possession Quotes - Page 10

• To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heart, Character, Love Is

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6307, e-artnow

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• A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Integrity, Sensitive, Clean

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• Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Elements, Arms, Cowardice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.97, A&C Black

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• A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Good Man, Secret

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• Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Revealing, Mankind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.211, Ravenio Books

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• Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Pride, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

  William Shakespeare

  Slander, Succession

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

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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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• It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

  Aristotle

  Desire, Mankind, Property

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.57, Aristotle

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• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

  Aristotle

  Long, Office, Easy

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.180, Aristotle

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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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• When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.

  Confucius

  Strong, Sex, Fighting

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

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Unique, Soul, Individuality

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1974). “Christianity and Evolution”, Mariner Books

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• Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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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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• Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enjoy Life, Doe, Consciousness

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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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• My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

  Sandra Lee

  Grandma, Vintage, Letters

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