Possessing Quotes

202 quotes by 179 authors

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. — Philip Guston
Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply. — Alan Cinis
Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life. — Watchman Nee
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork… — Karl G. Maeser
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights… — Kenny Smith
One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He… — Swami Vivekananda
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances… — Laozi
Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord. — Watchman Nee
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick… — Hart Crane
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many… — B. C. Forbes
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand… — Laozi
...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and… — Gautama Buddha
It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them.… — D.E. Stevenson
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional… — George Steinbrenner
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the… — Samuel Chadwick
Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters. — Samuel Chadwick
One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue… — Mas Oyama
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. — William James
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in… — Simone Weil

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