#posse

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#alone #give #giving #greatest #intangible

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#does #freedom #gives #love #possession

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess. ↗

— Jim Talent

#alone #america #among #does #energy

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #discern #discover #fool #man

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#possessing #quite #worth

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not. ↗

— Terence

#curses #get #how #know #mind

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#diminish #ease #fool #i #i can

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#ignore #know #love #love is #needs

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#exactly #fantasy #his #mark #neurotic