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- Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not… — M.F.K. Fisher
- It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro
- Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in… — Dee Dee Myers
- I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if… — Denis Diderot
- Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel