The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession. — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no… — William Bolitho 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
A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be… — Karen Armstrong 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
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson 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
If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last… — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers… — Betsy Prioleau Copy Share Image
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they,… — Helmut Schoeck 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
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds,… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed… — Isha Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he… — Marcus Minucius Felix Copy Share Image
One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
