Possession Quotes
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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
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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
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
William Lyon Phelps
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My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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
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Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.
Bias of Priene
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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia Woolf
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
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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
