Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I want my team to play well almost all of the time and have possession of the ball. — Quique Setien Copy Share Image
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth… — Anna Cora Mowatt Copy Share Image
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they… — George Leef Copy Share Image
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;… — Wolfgang Thierse Copy Share Image
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[A]s a commencement the Lord appeared unto Joseph Smith, both the Father and the Son, the Father pointing to the Son said,… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one. — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image