Possessions Quotes


Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Rabindranath Tagore Possessions 163
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln Possessions 107
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them-neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar. Channing Pollock Possessions 91
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. Luke Possessions 90
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. John Ruskin Possessions 88
We are not the sum of our possessions. George H. W. Bush Possessions 83
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Possessions 80
Give thy mind more to what thou has than to what thou hast not. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Possessions 76
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. Leonardo da Vinci Possessions 75
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. Mark Twain Possessions 63
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnalism properly; they are still entangled with our desire for ownership. E.M. Forster Possessions 61
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. G.K. Chesterton Possessions 58
Some men are born to own; can animate all their possessions. Others cannot; Their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character; they seem to steal their own dividends. Ralph Waldo Emerson Possessions 54
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered. Oliver Wendell Holmes Possessions 46
The possessions of the rich are stolen property. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Possessions 46
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach. FranÃ§ois Fenelon Possessions 32
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends. Baltasar Gracian Possessions 28

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