1.
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
Zoroaster
A tranquil, satisfied spirit is the utmost treasure.
2.
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
John Locke
The utmost invaluable commodity is dominion over one's own self.
3.
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.
Francis of Assisi
'You cannot all relinquish your assets, but at least you can adjust your outlook regarding them. All acquiring isolates you from others; all distributing unifies to others.'
5.
Germany must have her place in the sun.
Wilhelm II
6.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
7.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Jackie Robinson
9.
The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
Reinhold Messner
10.
Hope is the most universal of human possessions.
Thales
13.
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.
Peter Damian
14.
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
Daniel Webster
15.
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them
Walter Hilton
16.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
George Carlin
17.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
Isocrates
18.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Benjamin Franklin
19.
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.
Peter Brook
20.
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.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
21.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
Rabindranath Tagore
23.
How many things I can do without!
Socrates
24.
I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.
Draymond Green
25.
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
Martha Gellhorn
26.
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce Lee
27.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
28.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.
Peace Pilgrim
29.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
John Adams
30.
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
Samuel Smiles
31.
No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
A. S. Byatt
32.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Marcel Proust
33.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
Richard J. Foster
34.
I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
Olga Kurylenko
35.
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
Lord Byron
36.
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
John D. Rockefeller
37.
If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
Johan Cruijff
38.
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
Watchman Nee
39.
Health is the greatest possession.
Laozi
40.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Herodotus
41.
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
Jack London
42.
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Louis Sullivan
43.
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.
Ludwig von Mises
44.
Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
James Hetfield
45.
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.
Eddie Rickenbacker
46.
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
47.
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.
Jonathan Swift
49.
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
Irvin D. Yalom
50.
It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
Michel de Montaigne