Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry. — Hillel the Elder Copy Share Image
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.… — Alexander Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
“I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image