Quotes About Self-possession

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

self-possessed, someone who understood that appearances were, if not everything, at least the foundation of something.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Nineteen Eighty-Four             MYAUNGMYA

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

Watching the river flow over fish-white feet, so intently, utterly self-possessed even as a child.

We are possessed by nobody not even by ourselves

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

And yet he had taken her to that inn wanting to soothe himself with feminine compassion and warmth. Her very silence and self-possession had inflamed him, angered him. He had wanted her to reach out to him as no one had reached out for more years than he could recall, and she had looked at him with steady acceptance of what she must do to earn her living. He cursed softly and turned from the

But she would not allow her thoughts to show on her face. She kept her lips tightly pressed together and her expression impassive.

at last she drew on her gloves, straightened her hat, and went away with that odd self-possession which seems to characterize all the older women of the Crescent. Time takes its toll of them, death and tragedy come inevitably, but they face the world with quiet faces and unbroken dignity.

Don't you know....don't you know that there are things, in the best of us, which no outside hand should dare touch? Things sacred because, and only because, one can say: 'This is mine'? Don't you know that we live only for ourselves, the best of us do, those who are worthy of it? Don't you know that there is something in us which must not be touched by any state, by any collective, by any number of the millions?

mind, Miss Taggart? My mind is not on the market any longer.

A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Self-possession depends on its environment.

I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

What is true belongs to me!

The officious swagger in her gait might have been some flavor of self-possession or the cool skedaddle of a shoplifter making for the door. In either case, the streamer of toilet paper that trailed from the waistband of her tiny skirt like the banner of an advertising airplane pretty much spoiled the effect.

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.