Possession Quotes - Page 5

I find all this money a considerable burden.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Hope is the best possession.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

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

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.