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
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII of France Copy Share Image
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison 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
We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship. — Anthony Horowitz 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
I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back. — Glenn Murray Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Even if no learning to speak of was involved in locking my mental term onto doorknobs, it is odd to say that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
