#posses

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#become #draw #family #feel #friends

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. ↗

— Democritus

#dwells #gold #happiness #possessions #resides

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

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

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

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ↗

— Simone Weil

#over #possess #power

We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#because #believe #helped #intend #nations

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#complete #earn #education #eight #fitting

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#i #most #never #possessions #prized

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. ↗

— Chanakya

#books #confined #his #knowledge #need