Possession Quotes

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Love, Powerful, Enough

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Health, Greatest, Confidence

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

Peace, Powerful, Heart

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music, Everybody, Publishers

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Generosity, Race

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Experience, Enemy, After

The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce Lee

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Mine, Becomes

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Heart, Feelings, Give

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

Future, Taken, Elegance

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus

Love, Person, Desire

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

Knowledge, Sense, Wonder

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Freedom, Claim

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther

God, Goes, Choose

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya

Knowledge, Others, Books

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Made, Riches, Treasures

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie

Mind, May, Else

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

Truth, Emotional, Important

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Hope, Place, Based

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

Friendship, Wisdom, Happy

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles

Freedom, Courage, Alone

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen

Good, Truth, Wife

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, Power, Real

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats

Death, Two, Same

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Time, May

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

Duty, Obligation, Implies

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Common, Share

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