For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Your most valuable Possession will always be your Soul – nobody can steal it, nobody can borrow it, nobody can damage it… — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or… — Rickie Solinger Copy Share Image
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special,… — Jim Atkinson Copy Share Image
In my career I have had many wonderful things happen to me, many more than I ever dreamed would ever happen. But… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
“The possession of a body tonight seemed a very small thing-perhaps that day I had seen too many bodies which belonged to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard… — Charles Trippy Copy Share Image
“One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised.… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Anything that breathes is, by and large, an uncertain possession and one must not put one's heart too much in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image