#posse

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#doing #found #merely #possessing

I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#dreamy-sighs #possessiveness #funny

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#believe #children #future #i #i believe

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#every man #friends #goats #how #man

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply