Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. — Epicurus
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out… — Desiderius Erasmus
The wavering mind is but a base possession. — Euripides
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material… — Tom Ford
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. — William Hazlitt
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free… — Robert Henri
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies… — Eric Hoffer
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. — Eric Hoffer
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church… — Harry Houdini
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. — David Hume
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in… — Thomas Huxley
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time… — Kazuo Ishiguro
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it… — Henry James
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! — Mother Jones
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers… — Meir Kahane
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of… — John Keats
I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession. — Olga Kurylenko
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use… — Christopher Lasch
The possession of anything begins in the mind. — Bruce Lee
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. — John Lennon
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner

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