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Possession Quotes by Anonymous

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Anonymous points out that material success can crowd out spiritual joy. He describes how overindulgence in food, drink, and sleep leaves us exhausted and shallow. He also claims that character is a better possession than money, rank, or beauty. He reminds us that the sea and air belong to everyone, not to private owners.

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Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

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“tribes of Israel as a possession e according to”

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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I find all this money a considerable burden.

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Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

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Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

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Possession; a psychological state in which an individual's normal personality is replaced by another.

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The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

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“I want all of you. Even the parts you refuse to give anyone. Especially those parts.”

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A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

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If by chance I should hold her, let me hold her for a time. But if allowed just one possession, I would…

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“Whom have I in heaven but you and earth possesses nothing I desire besides you" -Psalm 73:25”

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Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

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First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some…

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All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the…

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Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot…

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and…

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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness…

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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or…

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The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the…

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No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by…

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The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion…

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“Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no…

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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was…

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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the…

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“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need…

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The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the…

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Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that…

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We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too…

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Anything that breathes is, by and large, an uncertain possession and one must not put one's heart too much in it.

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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human…

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“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time- Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks In the blank skin of things,…

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -…

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If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

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Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the…

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