Possess Quotes

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If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. — Simone Weil
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves.… — Aldous Huxley
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… — Hannah Arendt
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed. — Paulo Coelho
Truth is truth, you are who you are, and though your viewpoint might change, and though you might possess a different perspective about something, your… — R.J. Ellory
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you… — Italo Calvino
For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times. — Unknown Author
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence. — Ayn Rand
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And… — P.G. Wodehouse
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. — Marcus Aurelius
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. — Immanuel Kant
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes… — Milan Kundera
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books… — Alberto Manguel
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the… — Wilkie Collins
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or… — Virginia Woolf
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and… — Angela Carter
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering,… — Leo Tolstoy
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at… — Alexandre Dumas

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