It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills,… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power… — John Lancaster Spalding 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
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind.… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root… — Max Born Copy Share Image
