Possession Quotes

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Germany must have her place in the sun.

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

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

We are made loveless by our possessions.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

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

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

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

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

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

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

How many things I can do without!

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

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

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

Health is the greatest possession.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

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

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.