Quotes About Possession

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. This is what makes travel so utterly fruitless.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

buying more stuff will make us happy, because we saw the capitalist paradise with our own eyes on television.

Property is a prerequisite for long-term inequality.

The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.

The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to get a grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. They are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

Kada neko do?e sa namerom da ti nešto ukrade, on prigrabi šta god mu staviš nadomak ruke, makar i majušnu stvar.

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Happiness will come today, tomorrow and every year, now, then and every moment. For if we learn to love, care and share, happiness will come to fill our heart with kindness. It is a gift from the universe to touch our life with joyful silence. Happiness will come. For if we know wealth and splendors are illusions, but attainment of certain mental state and unconditional love is a real possession.

Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

La Ley del Desapego dice que para adquirir cualquier cosa en el universo físico tienes que renunciar a tu apego hacia él.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

He thought of their kiss—had it really been two days ago? The image of Zac's kiss barreled into his mind. When everyone had filtered into the dining room for cinnamon rolls, Beau had confiscated the mistletoe. If anyone was getting another kiss from Kate, it was going to be him.

They drive an Avis Grey Lady, a car that costs the same as a modest house.

What is it with you women?" he yelled, kicking at the air. "You come into our lives, you take everythin'! Throughout the years you got little pieces of me, of my very SOUL, and NOW? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even SHAVE?

Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want Skulduggery: A winning sense of style?

I'm afraid I can't let you take it. I could, you know, give you its big toe or something, as a keepsake, but that's about it.

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.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.