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“...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.”

Thinking Knows Enjoy Pleasure Economy Tragedy Grateful Sacred Good Things Possession Consumers Contemplation Acquire Consumerism Possessing Overconsumption Unspeakable

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. It's there for your pleasure.”

Ifs Soul Together Beautiful Lost Pleasure Beauty Flower Possession Possessed Lost Souls Beautiful Flower

Author:Diana Vreeland

“But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.”

Matter Moments Beautiful Pleasure Bird Possession

Book:Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings

Source: Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”

Helping Joy Spirit Peace Pleasure Possession Servant Pale Nothingness Peace And Joy Joy To The World

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.”

Life Made Life Is Pleasure Poor Rich Aim Possession Noble Subservient Ignoble

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.”

People World Needs Firsts Self Heaven Wealth Pleasure Greater Example Pride Higher Fortune Leaving Calm Possession Deeper Pursuit Felicity

Book:The Two Paths

Source: The Two Paths

“If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.”

Ifs Men Might Earth Pain Purpose Enjoy Pleasure Bed Reflection Devil Angel Charity Endure Ill Possession Envy Pity Possessed Distress Doing Good Death Bed

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.”

Looks Book Lying Pleasure Possession Urges Print Stamps Collecting Offspring Trinkets Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Agnes Repplier

“When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.”

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.”

World Giving Faces Spiritual Certain Pleasure Taste Possession Smell Sickness Artificial Richness

Author:Georges Rouault

“Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.”

Giving Humans Reality Given Human Beings Love Is Pleasure Vision Depth Possession Debt Proof Stations Reverence Revealing Penetrate

Author:Mansur Al-Hallaj

“. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.”

Pain Life Is Desire Evil Enjoy Pleasure Losing Expectations Distance Possession This Life Good And Evil Perpetual Pain And Pleasure

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.”

World Years Long Pleasure Possession Ease Shocking Counting

Book:Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew

Source: Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew