the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
“Derek’s. Lucas’. Ben’s. It’s beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I’m neither object nor possession. I don’t… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the… — Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Copy Share Image
No material possession, no activity can remove, release, or change how you feel.The only person who can change what you feel is… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Your brain is your own personal property, a little bit like a private part, so whatever it decides to think of me… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. — John Piper Copy Share Image
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions…… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I believe the most dangerous misconception is the idea our money and possessions belong to us, not God. Many of our problems… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the… — Anonymous 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
In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I… — Augusta Savage Copy Share Image
Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence… — Abraham J. Twerski Copy Share Image
The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any… — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
