I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The possession of a body tonight seemed a very small thing-perhaps that day I had seen too many bodies which belonged to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely… — Laozi Copy Share Image
True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God... who is 'Lord of lords' (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of… — Theodorus Gaza Copy Share Image
One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Anything that breathes is, by and large, an uncertain possession and one must not put one's heart too much in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
“Hadn't someone once said love was attention? No more, no less. There was attention, and there was obsession, and there was possession.” — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite. — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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