A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession. — Caroline Ghosn Copy Share Image
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We thought we left possession behind but truth is I was yours and you were mine — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery… — Seneca Copy Share Image
The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or)… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing.… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire. — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals. — African Spir Copy Share Image
You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
