Self-possession Quotes

• We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heaven
  • Pride
  • Examples

• The greatest possession is self-possession.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Possession
  • Self-possession

• The roots of resilience . . . are to be found in the sense of being understood by and existing in the mind and heart of a loving, attuned, and self-possessed other.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Heart
  • Self-possession
  • Resilence

• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Knowledge
  • Winning
  • Security