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#posses

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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.


Alain de Botton


#anxiety #desire #happiness #materialism #possessions

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.


Henry Wade


#bus driver #cab driver #driver #found #had

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.


William Blake


#imagination #limitation #possession #wishful-thinking #imagination

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.


Benjamin Franklin


#him #possess #possesses #wealth

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.


Constance Rourke


#deep #emotion #emotional #forgotten #humor

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.


Zoe Saldana


#blood #fierce #fiery #i #i think

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.


Sallust


#fleeting #fragile #glorious #glory #goes

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.


George Sand


#bought #brows #earth #far #having

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.


Carl Sandburg


#against #anger #directed #effects #goes






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