75 Quotes About Possess

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.

In patience you shall possess your soul.

Strengthen your borders, your frontier patrols; It is good to work for the future. One respects the life of the foresighted, While he who trusts fails. Make people come [to you] through your good nature, A wretch is who desires the land [of his neighbor], A fool is who covets what others possess. Life on earth passes, it is not long, Happy is he who is remembered,

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

Any sense of privilege that we have to possess something seems to vanish once we are actually able to possess it. Therefore, in how many cases would it better ‘not’ to possess something?

Greed consumes everything that we are in the pursuit of everything that we don’t have. Therefore, to possess everything that the world has to offer but to have lost ourselves in the pursuit is to hold everything but to possess nothing.