Possess Them Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly…
— Muhammad Ali
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There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,…
— Hippocrates
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else…
— Bell Hooks
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny the Elder
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Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my…
— Epictetus
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Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them…
— John Milton
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We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things…
— Ralph Caplan
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To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
— Jean-Francois Regnard
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Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.
— Dan Davis
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The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who…
— Robert Genn
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered…
— Gay Talese
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When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will…
— Paulo Coelho
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Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can…
— Gregory David Roberts
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O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.
— William Shakespeare
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I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books…
— Anthony Powell
Who Wrote These Possess Them Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Possess Them Quotes as follows: