Quotes About Possess

Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing more than a zodiac of the mind's phantasms. "On the day when I know all the emblems," he asked Marco, "shall I be able to possess my empire, at last?" And the Venetian answered: "Sire, do not believe it. On that day you will be an emblem among emblems.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

but yet I was bound in the wings of the temptation, and the wind would carry me away.  I thought also of Saul, and of the evil spirit that did possess him: and did greatly fear that my condition was the same with that of his.  1 Sam. x.

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess Life. Let us not lose Life in the wild pursuit of other things.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

And for another thing, though the imagination is easily teased by the desire for something we cannot possess, its wings are never clipped as they would be by a closer glimpse of reality, in these encounters where the charm of the passing beauty is generally in direct relation to their brevity.

For me high society is only a means to an end. It offers vulgar but invincible weapons, and if I want to be loved someday, I have to possess them.

back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.

Love's Aspect, that none can reach, touch, posses. Passion's whisper none shall hear. Loyalty made flesh. I came here only for a friend, to aid her in smiling. I have everything I need, and none can ever take me from she that it bound to my Soul.

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.

New ideas capture and possess the mind that births them," said Robert Grudin in The Grace of Great Things. "They colonize it and renew its laws.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing

For that fine madness still he did retainWhich rightly should possess a poet's brain.

In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

It is not my doing that the market prizes the talents I have, or that I possess those talents in the first place.

I refuse to learn your name. Does that not offend you?" "Nope." Well. That was all the argument he had. No sense in conjuring false reasons to display a morality he did not possess.

To move into another state or mansion necessitates a change of beliefs. All that you could ever desire is already present and only waits to be matched by your beliefs. But it must be matched, for that is the necessary condition by which alone it can be activated and objectified. Matching the beliefs of a state is the seeking that finds, the knocking to which it is opened, the asking that receives. Go in and possess the land.

If you are dissatisfied with your present expression of life, then you must be born again. Rebirth is the dropping of that level with which you are dissatisfied and rising to that level of consciousness which you desire to express and possess.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." John 2:19 "Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it." Joshua 1:11