#possess

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. ↗

— Epicurus

#much #possession #riches #their #torment

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#men and women #mutual #own #possession #should

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#martyrs #our #past #possess #tomorrow

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ↗

— Robert Burns

#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#go #heaven #perfect #poor #possessions

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#does #getting #going #invades #invasion

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#away #give #mandatory #only #possess

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#completely #different #economy #even #give