Identity Quote by Ethel Watts Mumford

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or…

— Sydney J. Harris

“In so doing, I resisted the descent into what the school counselors called low self-esteem. Self-esteem is the dark, distorted shadow of self-possession. Self-esteem…

— Karen Swallow Prior

The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love…

— Brian Jett

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

— Anonymous

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

— George D. Prentice

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose…

— Kate Chopin

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical…

— Samuel Alexander

“It had never been a secret that I'd idealized my father, that I would've done anything to please him--to be the apple of his…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Your personal health is your greatest possession; the most significant foundation of any future you will have.”

— Bryant McGill

Health is the greatest possession.

— Laozi

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

— Anonymous