#posse

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#body #culture #form #greenland #people

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#far #i #man #possessing #range

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#birds #except #possess #sang #silent

They that possess the prince possess the laws. ↗

— John Dryden

#possess #prince

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ↗

— Epictetus

#consists #few #great #having #possessions

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#back #date #existed #i #me

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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#possession #beauty

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#inside #possessed #real #riches