Possessiveness Quotes

• Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Should, Possessed

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• When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Sadness, People

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• Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

  Ann Aguirre

  Emotion

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.80, Penguin

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• If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Wise, Spiritual

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• Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Girl, Boys

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “What I Believe”, p.33, Routledge

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• You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  A. R. Rahman

  Passion, Mean, Being The Best

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Roots, Ego

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• Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Responsibility, Elements, Care

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

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• Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Lust, Ego

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• Marriage has failed because you could not rise to the standard that you were expecting of marriage, of the concept of marriage. You were brutal, you were, you were full of jealousies, you were full of lust; you had never known really what love is. In the name of love, you tried everything which is just the opposite of love: possessiveness, domination, power.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love You, Love Is

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• With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.

  Peter Shepherd

  Emotional, Opposites, Choices

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• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  War, Creativity, Men

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• ... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Accepting, Strikes, Bargains

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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• I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Hate, I Hate, Possession

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

  Helen Fisher

  Girl, Eye, Names

  "Jealousy — The Monster". www.oprah.com.

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• Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Ambition, Support

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• When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

  Paul Budnitz

  Artistic, Ownership, Process

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• But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, People, May

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• In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.

  John Updike

  Mother, War, Pulse

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, I Love Him, Sight

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• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

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• Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Jealousy, Fire

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• Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.

  Peter Medawar

  Pride, Practice, People

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• Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

  Kinky Friedman

  Remember, Possessive

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• And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, People, Want

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