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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
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.
Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them.
Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.
Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.
The love of possession is a desease with them.
That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.
For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
If you desire it, you can possess it.
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
Giving is true having.
Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Having is not the same as owning. You can have even those things you don't want. Owning means having and enjoying the things you have. He had a home, a wife and a son, but none of them was truly his. He only had himself, but even then not entirely.
Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.
Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
Every year I own less of what I use. Possession
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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.
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us - and to which we have no right.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
What do you possess if you possess not God?
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.
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
And by being possessed, you possess, because that's how love works.
There is no possession without increase, every increase must lead to possession
What belongs to you; your soul, your spirit and your body!
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
Mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
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.
We can possess nothing - no property and no person ... It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control
Non-possession does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.
Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.
When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world.
What we long for, we shall possess.
Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...
If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m
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.
Some men are born to own, and 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.
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
love without ownership
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
You could only express ownership of a thing in terms of how freely you could give it up
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.
Whenever you own something without a corresponding knowledge of the possession, you eventually lose it.
It is foolish to hold tightly to material possessions. We do not own them, but they can own us.
Joy profits you more than possessions.
Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
The things you used to own, now they own you.
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.
It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then we try not only to hide it from others, but we also try to hide it from ourselves.
O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than ... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.
Good could become the enemy of the best. That best is possession.
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
One cannot have love without ownership
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.
Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.
The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.
All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving what the Absolute has to nonfictively give.
By giving away we feel rich; by hoarding we feel poor.
You can possess what you dream of.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
The sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
Health is the greatest possession.
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.
Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts.
Whatever you can visualize, you can possess it.
Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
There's no joy in possession if all you do is throw money at it.
To declare a thing is to possess it.
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
The most valuable possession my master owns is his submissive. I will take great care that no harm comes to my master's submissive whenever he is not there to watch over me himself.
The things you own end up owning you.