How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
“You’re my obsession, I’m your possession You own the deepest part of me You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free” — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Whatever. I just won’t have Elena hurt, is all. Or the little red-headed witch.” “Ah, yes, sweet Bonnie. I wouldn’t mind one… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships,… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the… — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem,… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
