Quotes About Possession

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds and big words, and yet they strive for and desire so many things, they wish to possess so much and are so concerned both with themselves and with this thing and that. They assert that they are seeking great piety and devotion, and yet they cannot accept a single word of reproval without answering back. Be certain of this: they are far from God and are not in union with him.

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God's possession.

After school, Liam romantically held my hand tightly as he walked me to the car. Our entire stroll there, through the crowded school halls, he introduced me to everyone we passed saying, "This is Tatum—she's my girlfriend." He did it because he said he needed to make it clear—stake his claim: I was taken.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

It's impossible to lose that which does not belong to you.

That which falls off a lorry belongs to he who follows the lorry.

Porphyria's lover was mad, of course, but what lover is completely sane?

You don't define yourself. The objects you own define you. Capitalism defines what objects you must have, so capitalism defines you. Why is it so hard to overthrow capitalism? – because it defines your identity. It literally objectifies you. Your identity is established not by who you are but by what you have. The objects you own are more important than your talents and your personality. Anyone defined by objects doesn't have any talents or personality.

Verlangen doet alles bloeien, bezit verwelkt.

As Schopenhauer remarked: 'With possession, or the certain expectation of it, our demands immediately increase and this increases our capacity for further possessions and greater expectation…to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is.

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

It had obsessed his father and caused his death. It had briefly obsessed Pétur before he had tried to put it behind him. It had obsessed Agnar and the foreign Lord of the Rings fans, and it had obsessed Hákon. No possessed Hákon. Only his grandfather, Högni, had had the

Wisdom should be cherished as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession. —Bias of Priene (c. 570 B.C., one of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece)

His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

It's my property and a gift from the Lord. Why should I pay tax on it?

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer.

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

The mother would be overly possessive of her son and would castrate him mentally. She would treat him like a boy although he was already an adult male.