#posse

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave? ↗

— Roman Payne

#carpenter #courage #esteem #genius #happiness

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#life #material-possessions #stuff #life

What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#jealousy #losing-it #possessiveness #jealousy

You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#jealous-hero #jealousy #possessive #possessive-hero #possessiveness

Jealousy is something I cultivate whenever I enter a relationship. It shows proper self-possession. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #jealousy #possession #funny

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, it's being God. ↗

— Ted Bundy

#possession #ted-bundy #life

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#life #need #possessions #regret #wanting

The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we’ll gladly let everything else go to possess Him. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#gospel #jesus #kingdom #life #possessions