#posse

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. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#actually #alignment #attain #begin #beliefs

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ↗

— Jean Racine

#am #everything #i #nothing #possess

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. ↗

— Waverley Lewis Root

#country #cuisine #deserves #enough #every

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

— Jane Austen

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #must

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#destruction #his #iraq #leader #mass

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#does #her #herself #manly #possess

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#because #i #i am #like #man

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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