The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac,… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying.… — Eric Shipton Copy Share Image
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying,… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard… — Charles Trippy Copy Share Image
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised.… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
“One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“Your most valuable Possession will always be your Soul – nobody can steal it, nobody can borrow it, nobody can damage it… — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or… — Rickie Solinger Copy Share Image
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
![“Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not…” quote by Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28e/epictetus-413_aversion_some-things-are-up-to-us-eph-h-min-and-s_162002.jpg)
