Possession Quotes

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought. John Quincy Adams

Gratitude Soul Thought Sentiment Other Possession Scarce Bosom Takes Sincere Overflowing Leaves Intense Any Room Warm Fills

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. Coco Chanel

Future Those Possession Adolescence Taken Escaped Just Who Elegance Prerogative

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith

Man Memory Rich Nothing Else Possession He Real His Poor

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Confucius

Knowledge Earnest Possession Born Seeking Fond Am Antiquity Who

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desiderius Erasmus

Nature Nothing Rage Nowadays Profit Possession Out Sacred Got Squeezed Pitch Cannot Whether Which Realm Profane

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Gaston Bachelard

Morning Soul Rest Sets Our Possession Out Must Rarely Shadows Only Opens Within Does Repose Being Us Sweep Body Phantoms Inn Belong Night Sleep

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. John Ruskin

Every Increased Possession Weariness New Us Loads

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. Dick Gregory

Possession Torment Delight Loss Us Much Riches

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. Eric Hoffer

Truth Believe Everyday Possession Ourselves Indifferent Only Likely Truths Common

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Life Soul Will Animals Possession Because Themselves Body Right

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. James Baldwin

Culture People Possession Having Price Come Without Heavy Paid

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Jose Rizal

Great Lie Great American Possession Dream Someday Perhaps Foreign Hand American May Africa Pacific Republic Interests American Republic Who Whose

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom Value Possession Inestimable

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. Meir Kahane

Happiness Life Man Valuable Own Every Considers Those Possession Worthwhile He Terms Judges His Lack Satisfaction Things Every Man

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. Neil Gaiman

Cause Books Bookshelf Possession Would Had Proudest Been

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