#posses

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#certain #conferred #degree #holds #knowledge

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#belonging #born #clothes #form #into

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ↗

— Max Born

#evil #oneself #only #possession #root

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#friend #i #i am #meek #never

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ↗

— John Cage

#nothing #possess #realize #soon

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquires #anything #else #entitled #full

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#dreamed #ever #far #more #most