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• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possession, Insatiable, Sterilize, Desire

• Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possession, World, Hope, Place, Man

• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possession, Freedom

• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possession, Wealth

• A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by.

  Topics in French Proverbs

  Tags in Sparrow, Flieth, Pheasant, Possession

• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understands, Possession, Time

• See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possession, Want, Think

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  Felix Adler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rare, Possession, Anxious, Momentary, Unrest, Gain

• One’s religion is one’s own possession and he has a right to it.

  Paul Harris

  Tags in Possession

• A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

  Thomas Browne

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Forced, Surrender, Possession

• It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

  Max Planck

  Topics in Success, Truth

  Tags in Possession

• Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Tags in Ownership, Possession