True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Whom have I in heaven but you and earth possesses nothing I desire besides you" -Psalm 73:25” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed… — Isha Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds,… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they,… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions… He will always be attracted to the woman… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The number one thing is to catch the football and maintain possession. — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
