Possession Quotes

• It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Possession

• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Style
  • Lifestyle
  • Degrees

• Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Strength
  • Possession
  • Misfortune

• I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Family
  • Suffering
  • Individual

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Psychedelic
  • Identical

• Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Wisdom
  • Possession
  • Travelling

• The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz Possession (2) Wissen Knowledge (3) Können Ability (4) Sein Being.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Knowledge
  • Possession
  • Human Development

• 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
  • Knowledge
  • Possession
  • Labours

• The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.

  

  Charles Lapworth
  • Science
  • Band
  • Common

• My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Mind
  • War
  • Religious

• The greatest possession is self-possession.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Possession
  • Self-possession

• I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Soul
  • Doubt
  • Enjoy

• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Possession
  • Foolish
  • Guards

• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  

  Milarepa
  • Possession
  • Finals
  • Initials

• To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Produce
  • Possession
  • Secret Virtue

• The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession...

  

  Brad Stevens
  • Time
  • Play
  • Key

• No possession is gratifying without a companion.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Possession
  • Companion
  • Gratifying

• Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Friend
  • Give
  • Possession

• The possession of power brings on madness.

  

  Ariana Franklin
  • Power
  • Madness
  • Possession

• The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.

  

  Carl Menger
  • Period
  • Command
  • Goods

• At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

  

  Benny Carter
  • Work
  • Talking
  • Possession

• In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.

  

  Bob Griese
  • Football
  • Possession
  • Clock

• It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

  

  Walter Hilton
  • Easier
  • Renounce
  • Worldly

• There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

  

  Anna Brackett
  • Desire
  • Things
  • Possession

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