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Quotes About Possession

Jealousy is considering other person received the thing that you deserved.
~ Unknown
Man proposes, God disposes is not the matter, the matter is what man possesses.
~ Unknown
The Lord knows those who are his" (2 Timothy 2:19). If God has given us faith in Christ, then we are among his chosen ones; if we are among his chosen ones, then we are his special possession; and if we are his special possession, then he has given us his guarantee that he will jealously protect and preserve us to the day of redemption by his almighty power.
~ Unknown
The sunflower is mine, in a way.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
What I am is my own business.' 'Not any more.' He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. 'You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.
~ Violet Winspear
The Karma-Yogi is the man who understands that the highest ideal is non-resistance, and who also knows that this non-resistance is the highest manifestation of power in actual possession, and also what is called the resisting of evil is but a step on the way towards the manifestation of this highest
~ Vivekananda
All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.
~ Vivian Gornick
History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.
~ Voltaire
This is the happiest of all men, for he is superior to everything he possesses.
~ Voltaire
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
~ Voltaire
I've got a voice of a dead man in my head who is trying to take over my body!
~ W. Bruce Cameron
It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.
~ Unknown
When people are good the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes through people who are not good or who have been forgotten. Perhaps Christianity was good and the world liked it, so now it is going away and the immortals are beginning to awake.
~ W.B. Yeats
He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!
~ Natsuki Takaya
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.
~ Milton Berle
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
~ Lao Tzu
If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.
~ Kurt Russell
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.
~ George Carlin
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
~ Jack London
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
~ T. S. Eliot
pero el placer estriba en no poseer a la persona. El placer es esto. Tener a otro contendiente en la habitación contigo.
~ Philip Roth
Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost.' To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime.
~ Philip Yancey