Quotes About Possession

I never really understood the game until I saw Cruyff's Barcelona play. The first time that happened it opened up a new world to me. I began to understand that football was a collective thing, and that association between players meant you could keep the ball the whole game.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick them up.

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Wierno??! (...) Jest w niej pragnienie posiadania. Wiele rzeczy wyrzuciliby?my, gdyby nie obawa, ?e inni mog? j? podnie??.

Ten en cuenta que si regalas algo a tu amante antes de haberla poseído, es muy fácil que te quedes sin regalo y sin amante.

no matter what bullshit you heard, hes still mine! he'll always be mine

i'll go so far as to believe you own the universe

I go so far as to think you own the universe.

Ä°nsan?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi olmamal?.O zaman dünyaya sahip demektir.

I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!

invested with the dignity of possession.

You are reversing the case!" The saint's face held a mild rebuke. "I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciants! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!

Oh, yes. He felt the pearls brush down his face again. Dory turned: he met her eyes and let her see the new pearls forming. Anything that beautiful is terrible. Because it's outside of you. It's not you. You'll do anything to make it part of you. You'd eat it, drown in it, kill it, let it kill you. Anything to stop it from not being you.

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?

Think," said Dante, "that this day will never dawn again." Life is slipping away with incredible speed. We are racing through space at the rate of nineteen miles every second. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Abundance is not about possession; it is utterly, completely, and solely about gratitude.

I nevertheless understood at that second the ancient obsession of the God-fearing for another kind of fear: the thrill of exorcism, the mindless whirl of Dervish possession, and the almost erotic surrender of seance, speaking in tongues, and Zen Gnostic trance. I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality of their mystic antithesis -the God of Abraham.

He guards his privacy as zealously as a dragon guards his gold.

to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.

Finders keepers is what they say, and I wanted to be kept.

You'll know you're among the people of your culture if the food is all owned, if it's all under lock and key." "Hmm