Quotes About Possession

Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Old pain was heavy in the heart, hard to move, and anyway, Dolores Umber kept a tight hold of her pains and grievances. She thought her pain was the last thing she really owned, the last thing that she could keep all to herself. Her very own thing, and she didn't much care for the idea of someone else trying to take that away from her too.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Every commonwealth being, as we have said, a partnership, it follows, that in every commonwealth men must be partners in some things or in all. Some things they must possess in common, since the community could not otherwise subsist.

The first travelers were conquerors, not interested in looking, but in having.

Prospect theory explains why you feel terrible if you lose your watch, even if you have four other watches. You are mistaking it in your mind for your caveman's stash of buffalo jerky.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his joyful essay "Friendship," I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts? I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate. Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine—a possession for all time. An

When it comes to the game they both focus on different things. Pep is maybe more about positions, dominating the ball while Jurgen is maybe more like winning the ball and trying to score goals as quick as possible with high intensity.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

It's a lot harder to rack up a big bill on clothes and shoes than on boats and cars.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

My goal is robbing the ball.

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

I own a car: a minivan. But don't tell anyone, 'cause they're gonna ask to borrow it.

Your faculties remained yours, and mine became useful to their rightful owner.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

She has the power to both possess and shatter my entire universe, that is all.

Ein Buch, das man liebt, darf man nicht leihen, sondern muss es besitzen.

They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.

Woman wants to be taken and accepted as a possession, she wishes to be merged in the conceptions of possession and possessed; consequently she wants one who takes, who does not offer and give himself away