It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous — Livy Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does… — Eugen Richter 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
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas 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
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is… — William Powell Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
