Quotes About Possession

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

.if you cant let thing go, it owns you..

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.

When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.

Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

No man can lose what he never had.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.