Possessions Quotes
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We are made loveless by our possessions.
Elizabeth of Hungary -
We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.
Wilford Woodruff
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In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.
Eugene Kennedy -
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 -
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
Blaise Pascal -
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
Erica Jong -
Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.
Eric Massa -
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
Lao Tzu
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The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!
John Calvin -
I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.
Denison Witmer -
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Georges Rouault -
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
Coleman Dowell -
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
Jerry Bridges -
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
Josephus Daniels
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In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.
Wilfred Thesiger -
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.
Conn Iggulden -
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions...
Brad Stevens -
If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.
Echo Bodine -
The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
Blaise Pascal -
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
Ida Tarbell -
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
Nicholas Haslam -
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
Tim Ferriss