Possess Quotes
1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors
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When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
— Watchman Nee
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While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
— Henry Rollins
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O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons,…
— Unknown Author
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If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
— Joseph Addison
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner…
— Howard Gardner
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In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they…
— Pema Chodron
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If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it…
— Russell Simmons
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected every moment in…
— Rajneesh
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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
— Thales
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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for…
— Franz Kafka
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Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of…
— Hokusai
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how…
— Zhuangzi
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things…
— Baruch Spinoza
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In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting…
— Dalai Lama
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Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.
— Max Lucado
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Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and…
— Nahmanides
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Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention,…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We possess nothing certainly except the past
— Evelyn Waugh
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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
— Edgar Lee Masters
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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary…
— Georges Cuvier
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It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy…
— Frederick Soddy
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Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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