Best 320 quotes in «possession quotes» category

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

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 of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don`t know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered.

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

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!