Possessions Quotes

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Child
  • Passions
  • Appetite

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Done
  • True

• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Words
  • Never
  • Possessions

• We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

  

  Anna Brackett
  • Possessions
  • Anxieties
  • Conveniences

• Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Possessions
  • Usually
  • Diminished

• I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Books
  • Many
  • Possessions

• He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hopes
  • Sentence
  • Comma

• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Friends
  • House
  • Books

• Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Peace
  • Passion
  • Blessings

• Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Money
  • Resources
  • Assets

• The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Message
  • Piece
  • Transient

• After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

  

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Burned

• Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Lost

• You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Remember
  • Possessions
  • Important Thing

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Mankind
  • Desires
  • Require

• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Independent
  • Mankind
  • Possessions

• The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Flesh
  • Possessions
  • Worms

• A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • May
  • True
  • Reality

• Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Hearts
  • Possessions
  • Smiles

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