P Quotes
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“Possession comes when you are not obsessed with anything.
Obsession comes when you're not possessed by anyone.”
“Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.”
“Possession is eleven points in the law.”
Source: Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not
“Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!”
“Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.”
“Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances”
“Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.”
Source: The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.”
Source: Fantomina and Other Works
“Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.”
Source: In Her Day
“Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”
Source: The Gnostic Gospels
“Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.”
“Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.”
“Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.”
“Possession, to be meaningful, should be timely”
“Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”
“Possession - yes, possess the whole earth if you wanted, but keep it for yourself. What should it matter to you how your things were scattered to the winds - after you were dead? There was only one life that mattered in this world and that was your own.”
Source: Julius
“Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.”
“Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.”
“Possessions age and lose value over time; memories last forever.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Possessions always made Lydia so sad, and she had never been sure why. Now she knew, yes, it's because they stay here forever. Possessions are the loneliest things in the world, lonelier even than people, because we leave them all behind.”
Source: Terrace Story
“Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.”
“Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.”
“Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.”
“Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.”
Source: A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Possessions are usually diminished by possession.”
“Possessions can be replaced, not people.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Possessions deteriorate, become obsolete, or teeter towards irrelevance. We will never remember the features of our third-last smartphone but we will remember how it helped us and what it made us feel. It’s the experience of the item, not the item itself, that we value more.”
Source: Why Marketing Works: 7 Time-Tested, Brand-Building Principles
“Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.”
“Possessions only provide temporary happiness.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
“Possessions weigh you down.”
“Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.”
Source: But Enough about You
“Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.”
Source: The Owl Service
“Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.”
“Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.”
Source: Doubleblind
“Possiamo comprenderci l’un l’altro, ma ognuno può interpretare soltanto se stesso.”
Source: Demian
“Possibile che fossi davvero idiota, dopotutto? Ero io che andavo a cercarmele, le rogne? Possibile. Era possibile che fossi davvero subnormale, che per me fosse già una fortuna riuscire a sopravvivere.”
“Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).”
Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)
“Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout”
“Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing”
Source: Thoughts Are Things & The God In You - Connect With The Force Within Yourself: How to Find With Your Inner Power - From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Your Forces and How to Use Them, Gift of Spirit & The Gift of Understanding
“Possibilities are a mysterious beauty. They tease us to explore while our inner child cheers because an adventure is waiting.”
Source: Time Slipping
“Possibilities are always revealed in the moonlight.”
Source: Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe
“Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'”
“Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.”
“Possibilities are only copies of actual things which are retroactively given a priproty they do not have. They are infertile copies and resemble the actual thing perfectly. By contrast, the virtual is the productive pole of the process that goes from the virtual to the actual; it is not determined by resemblance with the actual thing. Bodies implicate the virtual and when they are separated from it, they retain 'only the disincarnated appearance of a pure actuality (representation)”
“Possibilities are possible only when they are not zero.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Possibilities depend on you being OK with NOT knowing how it's going to play out.”
“Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.”