Quotes About Possession

He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self: if he no longer values himself, how can he value others? If he no longer values others, he is abandoned. He has nothing left!

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

All desires actually end in freedom. Your desire is fulfilled and you are empty. The emptiness brings you happiness, but it is unconscious. You attribute your happiness to a possession, not the emptiness. It is the freedom from desire that gives you happiness.

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Along with the provision that God gives, He also has provided the means (asb?b) by which one must seek out his provision. One person may be in possession of a meal that is meant for another, who then is invited to the former's home for that very meal. So a person never loses anything by feeding a guest. It is a provision meant for that guest, which was already decreed by God.

Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them.

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do what I please with him,—that's it!

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do

There was a posh girl in my year at Cambridge, also a philosopher, who gave names to every significant possession in her life. She had a teddy bear, of course, but her car had a name too. So did her phone. So did both of her laptops and her camera. For all I know, she gave names to her knives and forks as well - I don't know how far these things go with the English aristocracy.

Not every concept of ownership or possession is "arcane." Not every interest in property exists only in the desiccated atmosphere of ancient maxims and dusty books.

If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Die Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten begannen. Der Tote ist vergessen, der Lebende hat sein Land und seine Ehre in Besitz genommen. Das war bei ihm gut aufgehoben.

All things we possess are taken from others, and others in their turn await with outstretched hands to seize them.

I sort of......accidentally....tore it to pieces. And threw it in the fire. Well, he was mine after all.

He says that he saw you first. That by right, you are his captive. He says that Buffalo Run really has no right to you, that he has pampered you, that he has scorned the Comanche ways. He says that you should be his slave, and that he intends to take you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possesion of a pashon for fashon, must be in want of an audiance!

What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me?

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

Where there's property, there's theft.