Possession Quotes - Page 37

• Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

  Russell Lynes

  Friendly, Useless, Clutter

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Believe, Generosity

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• This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Intimate Relationships, Literature, Treats

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Would Be, Fields, Steps

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• Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Compromise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

  Jack Norris

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Reflection, Mind

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• The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Keys, Self, Discipline

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “The Master Key to Riches - A Sequel to Think and Grow Rich”, p.319, Lulu.com

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• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

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• Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred

  Gerard Verschuuren

  People, Evil, Three

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

  John Donne

  Men, Vanity, Sin

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• An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

  George Soros

  Views, People, Divergent

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Morbidity, Love Of Money

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.534, Penguin UK

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• These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

  Laozi

  Humble, Pride, Three

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• Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

  Earl Nightingale

  Reading, Book, Son

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• I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

  Nafisa Joseph

  Book, Eye, Littles

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• Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Spiritual, Self, Expectations

  Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.31, Bantam

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• Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.50, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Dream, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

  Rumi

  Names, Veins, Beloved

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.146, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Memories, Two, Perfect

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Self, Achievement, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.77, Penguin

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• Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.

  Suze Orman

  Time And Love, Share, Valuable

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from Mar 26, 2015

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• Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

  John Dewey

  Art, Expression, Individuality

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.226, Indiana University Press

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