Quotes About Self-possession

It is obviously an overwhelming limitation that one never wholly possesses one's self, that one possesses one's being in successive moments and not simply in one act of being, that one is never all there. There is no such limitation in God. He possesses Himself wholly in one act of being. This is what we call His ETERNITY.

This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me

while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

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

Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself . . . . He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself.

was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

Wilson imagined a conversation among European leaders as they realized they had been wrong, and Wilson right, about the war. "Do you not think it likely that the world will some time turn to America and say, 'You were right, and we were wrong. You kept your heads when we lost ours . . . Now, in your self-possession, in your coolness, in your strength, may we not turn to you for counsel and for assistance?' "23

In fact, in eighteenth-century English, the language of Kames's works, property meant the same as propriety: those things that are proper to me, and to me alone. To Kames and his followers, including Hume and Adam Smith, to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

you will not be master of my body & my property

BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

I want to belong to myself, to own something, not necessarily something very wonderful, but something which is mine, a place of my own, maybe only one room, but mine. Why sometimes I even find myself dreaming of a gas stove.

Ma questa non è cultura, è pedanteria, non è intelligenza, ma intelletto, e contro di essa ben a ragione si reagisce. La cultura è una cosa ben diversa. È organizzazione, disciplina del proprio io interiore, è presa di possesso della propria personalità, è conquista di coscienza superiore, per la quale si riesce a comprendere il proprio valore storico, la propria funzione nella vita, i propri diritti e i propri doveri.

Bezetenheid is het beste te genezen door het zelf te bezitten.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

To sum up, the world is mine without effort of mine, and the world has not the slightest hold on me.

When the creature takes full possession of the liberty it has received it becomes a person.

Honestly, I do not believe in a drunk Byron writing beautiful verses. Inspiration can pass through the soul just as easily in the midst of an orgy as in the silence of the woods, but when it is a question of giving form to your thoughts, whether you are secluded in your study or performing on the planks of a stage, you must be in total possession of yourself.

As for Miss Merriville, Mr Trevor felt that she was very well able to take care of herself. He had been dazzled by her beautiful companion, but he retained a vague impression of a self-possessed female, with a slightly aquiline nose, and an air of friendly assurance. He did not think that she would be easily taken-in.