1.
Less possessing-less possessed.
More possessing-more possessed.
More possessed-less accessed.
Less possessed-more accessed.
Mikhail Naimy
2.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck
3.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Philip Guston
4.
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
Arthur Rimbaud
5.
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
Henri Matisse
6.
Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.
Samuel Chadwick
7.
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit
P. J. O'Rourke
9.
no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
William Landay
10.
Happiness is in the taste,
and not in the things themselves;
we are happy from possessing what we like,
not from possessing what others like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
11.
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Robert Frost
13.
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
Stephen Covey