Possessions Quotes
495 Possessions quotes by 392 unique authors
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We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that…
— Donald Miller
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
— J. G. Holland
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A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Ugh! Why couldn’t anyone ever trust her? She wasn’t a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties,…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals…
— Albert Einstein
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We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
— Lorrie Moore
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A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but…
— Patricia Highsmith
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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence…
— Adam Smith
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Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,†he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are…
— Michael Lewis
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We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of…
— Lloyd Jones
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Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of…
— Donald Miller
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Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.
— Nora Roberts
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Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
— Brandon Sanderson
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No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety,…
— Nhat Hanh
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Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize…
— Laurie R. King
Who Wrote These Possessions Quotes
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