No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us;… — Grace King Copy Share Image
Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying.… — Eric Shipton Copy Share Image
When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
The people who have wealth and the people who earn money are going to be a little reluctant to part with it,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“The joke is this impersonal possession. It doesn’t have anyone’s signature. It was given to me—but you didn’t make it up; it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
![“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b11/christopher-hitchens-117_belief_concerning-monotheistic-religions-the-on_219156.jpg)
![“The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and…” quote by Charles Lapworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/937/charles-lapworth-52504_band_the-course-of-the-line-we-indicated-as-f_937360.jpg)
![“Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not…” quote by Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/28e/epictetus-413_aversion_some-things-are-up-to-us-eph-h-min-and-s_162002.jpg)
