Quotes About Possession

but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "It is a thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity

That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control

You can't impart what you don't possess.

Once more the mystery was performed. The tiny fleshly tabernacle was completed and separated; and from some place afar off the visitant soul which had been awaiting its earthly dwelling moved in and took possession.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Consequently not any self-control or self-limitation for the sake of specific ends, but rather a carefree letting go of one-self.… Not caution but rather a wise blindness.… Not working to acquire silent, slowly increasing possessions, but rather a continuous squandering of all shifting values.… This way of being has something naïve and instinctive about it and resembles that period of the unconscious best characterized by a joyous confidence: namely the period of childhood.

The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.

Allí donde la vida se configura como una perpetua lucha por la obtención de dinero, el hombre acaba, de facto, transformado en un bien más del sistema de la propiedad

El amor no puede ser enjaulado. El amor, para retomar una espléndida imagen que Rainer Maria Rilke utiliza en una de sus cartas, necesita moverse libremente, necesita una mano abierta que le permita, sin obstáculos, detenerse o escapar. Apretar los dedos para inmovilizarlo significa convertir la mano en un ataúd. Porque poseer quiere decir matar.

too. A woman should have something of her own." Doro

It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.

Philosophical concepts—those were what kept him up at night; they belonged to him.

Desire for vision: Faith. Desire for possession: Hope. Desire for love: Charity. By expectation, God increases desire. By desire, he empties out souls. In emptying them out, he makes them more capable of receiving him. Augustine of Hippo Commentary on the First Epistle of St John, 4,6

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

Horiki mostraba hacia los objetos de su casa una posesividad que alcanzaba hasta los cordones del cojín. Pensándolo después, a Horiki no le había costado ni un céntimo el divertirse conmigo.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

Otros piratas británicos como Cavendish y Davis en 1592 y Hawkins en 1594 recorrieron las costas patagónicas y el mar adyacente, lo que es invocado por Gran Bretaña para justificar su actual posesión de las islas Malvinas y otras del Atlántico Sur.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.