We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes.… — Xavi Copy Share Image
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying,… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac,… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
