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He likens the physical being to a car, and the spiritual being to the driver. And possession is like carrying a passenger who shares the driving. And occasionally takes the car out for a spin without telling you. And maybe ties you up and stuffs you in the trunk. By Chris Dolley Driver Likens Physical Spiritual Car

No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves. By William Peter Blatty Damien Things Senseless Petty Misunderstandings

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours. By Marty Rubin Appreciation Possession Makes Thing

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. By Zoroaster Reflective Contented Possession Mind

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ... By Eliza Haywood Desire Vigour Possession Naturally Abates

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession. By Sydney J. Harris Attitudes Masters Actions Possession Gracious

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. By Emily Dickinson Instant Joy Immortality Contented Anomaly

The loss of a possession frees us from it. By Marty Rubin Loss Possession Frees

There is no joy in possession without sharing. By Desiderius Erasmus Sharing Joy Possession

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. By Dale Carnegie Possession Today Precious

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully. By Bryant Mcgill Joyfully Possession Greatest Ability

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession. By Jack London Desire Possession Pain Seeks Easement

The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself. By Karen Kingston Ego Things Territorialism Desire Possess

Time is your most valuable possession. By Sunday Adelaja Time Possession Valuable

When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth. By Sunday Adelaja Possess Earth Strive Reward Waiting

I felt I was owned by possessions. By Nicolas Berggruen Possessions Felt Owned

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. By Yukio Mishima Possessing Youth Letting Things Secret

True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement. By Robert Greene True Ownership Mobility Decisions Improvement

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past. By James Montgomery Remembered Bliss Past Possession Joys

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted. By Glen Duncan Recently Besotted Ideal Possession Candidate

There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is so natural it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is; but its outworkings are tragic. By A.w. Tozer Life Doubt Possessive Clinging Things

Great expectations are better than a poor possession. By Miguel De Cervantes Great Possession Expectations Poor

love without ownership By Paulo Coelho Love Ownership

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. By Jonathan Swift Possession Law Eleven Points

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference. By Ambrose Bierce Property Thing Material Held Cupidity

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past. By Marie Kondo Painful Process Facing Selecting Possessions

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess. By Phil Callaway God Possessions Trust Tightly Lose

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. By John Locke Precious Possessions Power

Logan knew that tonight was about two things - want and possession. By Ella Frank Logan Things Possession Knew Tonight

Self-possession depends on its environment. By Gustave Flaubert Selfpossession Environment Depends

The sunset glow of self-possession. By Nicolas Chamfort Selfpossession Sunset Glow

Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation By Sunday Adelaja Land City Nation Possession Ideas

This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for the treasures of each other's personalities. But how can such a war be anything but destructive and hopeless? By Lawrence Durrell Possession Personalities War Meant Passionately

It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself By Lou Andeas-Salome Giving Possess

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater. By Charles Eisenstein Convention Property Social Agreement Exclusive

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession. By Julie Harris Possession Football

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us. By Joseph B. Wirthlin Things Reality

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing. By Max Stirner Power Holder Thing Long Assert

The things you used to own, now they own you. By Chuck Palahniuk Things

That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control By Ninotchka Rosca Belonged Control Things Necessarily Possession

Health is the greatest possession. By Laozi Health Possession Greatest

And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation. By Lionel Shriver Destruction Intimacy Appropriation Ownership

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession. By Anna Brackett Possession Things World Charming Desire

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you. By Frank Sinatra Possess Give Possesses

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. By Sylvia Townsend Warner Possessiveness Accept Bargain Confer Strike

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. By Pliny The Younger Pursuit Object Possession Seldom Retains

having nothing and possessing all things, By San Juan De La Cruz Things Possessing

And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works. By Patrick Ness Possessed Possess Works Love

No one worth possessing can quite be possessed By Sara Teasdale Possessed Worth Possessing

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. By Leo Tolstoy Death Man Possess Long Belongs

When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world. By Seneca. Power Deal World Possess Great

For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours. By William Shakespeare Lostwhy Falls Outthat Prize Worthwhiles

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball By Johan Cruijff Possession Defend Ball Play

No possession is gratifying without a companion. By Seneca The Younger Companion Possession Gratifying

What do you possess if you possess not God? By Saint Augustine God Possess

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself. By Marcel Proust Love Possession Greater Joy

Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful of images: a lover's irreplaceable body, the roil and shimmer of the sea overshot with sunlight, a handful of cherries, the texture and weight of a word. The word that seems most apt is partake ... We can say we partake of something but we may just as accurately say we take part in something' we are implicated in another being, which is always the beginning of wisdom, isn't it- that involvement which enlarges us, which engages the heart, which takes out of the routine limitations of self? By Mark Doty Handful Body Word Desire Participation

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. By George Meredith Possession Felicity Obligation Object Possessed

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. By Morihei Ueshiba Possessed Possess

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. By John Hope Dissatisfaction Achievement Possession Requisites

How can I possess with my body, when I don't even possess my body? How can I possess with my soul, when I don't possess my soul? How can I understand with my mind, when I don't understand my mind? There is no body or truth we possess, nor even any illusion. We are phantoms made of lies, shadows of illusions, and our life is hollow on both the outside and the inside. By Pessoa, Fernando Possess Body Soul Mind Understand

One cannot have love without ownership By Paulo Coelho Ownership Love

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. By E. M. Forster Material Carnal Life Earth Properly

There's no joy in possession if all you do is throw money at it. By Miranda Neville Joy Possession Throw Money

For a possession which is not diminished by being shared with others, if it is possessed and not shared, is not yet possessed as it ought to be possessed. The Lord saith By Augustine Of Hippo Possessed Shared Possession Diminished Lord

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain. By Jeff Melvoin Possessing Things Love Feel Jerks

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. By Leeann Taylor Ownership Stewardship

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession. By Friedrich Nietzsche Months Avarice Beautiful Scenery Longer

Never allow your possessions to possess you. By Matshona Dhliwayo Possessions Possess

You need to be possessed, controlled, owned." Something By Claire Thompson Controlled Owned Possessed

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. By Osho Possessed Great Foolish Things Man

What belongs to you; your soul, your spirit and your body! By Lailah Gifty Akita Soul Body Belongs Spirit

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness ... the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared. By Baltasar Gracian Owned Bring Delight Things Shared

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck. By Albert Einstein Neck Possession Stone

I don't own you, you just belong to me. By Pushpa Rana Belong

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing. By Chris Matakas Problem Possessing Possessions Relationship

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed. By Robert Hugh Benson Love Possess Possessed Seeks

To dream is to possess. By Lailah Gifty Akita Possess Dream

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything. By Neil Gaiman Desire Possession Possessor Smoke Wine

There is no increase without possession. By Sunday Adelaja Possession Increase

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession. By Olga Kurylenko Hate Jealousy Possessiveness Possession

Possession brightened his blue eyes, making them glow with the power of his wolf. Blazing need made her body shudder. "Mine," she whispered. This might be the only time she could say that. And she knew the word had deep meaning with shifters. Even though it was a dream, he had to know how badly she wanted him. By Milly Taiden Possession Eyes Making Wolf Brightened

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body. By Stephan Kinsella Scarce Body Ownable Resources Resource

Who's possessing who now, Casper? By Rick Riordan Casper Possessing

Joy profits you more than possessions. By Matshona Dhliwayo Joy Possessions Profits

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. By Peace Pilgrim Possessions Relinquish Outlived Usefulness Possesses

Mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it. By Ambrose Bierce Mine Adj Belonging Hold Seize

He that cannot cast off a possession has become the possessed By Hallie Burton Possessed Cast Possession

No one can claim to possess another, only God has the legitimate right to posses us. By R. Alan Woods God Claim Possess Legitimate Posses

Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self. By Bryant Mcgill Ownership Endless Forms Arrogance Engaged

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. By John Ruskin Weariness Increased Possession Loads

Love may turn to indifference with possession. By William Hazlitt Love Possession Turn Indifference

Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. By A.w. Tozer Possessing Things Free Sense Possess

The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer, from gratitude you will be. Be austere. Live with the necessary and forget about desires; they are fantasies in the mind, ripples in the lake. They only disturb you, they can never lead you to any contentment. By Rajneesh Happy Oriented Possession Divine Prayer

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. By Rajneesh Love Possessiveness Destroys Possessed

One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will it ever be again. Every second is a brand-new possession. By Ali Shaw Terrifying Things Life Belongs Possession

We own the things that claim that we are theirs. By Jay Mark D. Saga-Ad Things Claim

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding. By Rebecca Goldstein Mind Object Possess Understanding Pleasure

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security. By Neil Young Possessions Security Concessions Drag Load

Don't treat me like I belong to you because, no matter what I agreed to, I am not a possession! By Sadie Grubor Possession Treat Belong Matter Agreed