#possess

Did the harebell loose her girdle To the lover bee, Would the bee the harebell hallow Much as formerly? ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry-quotes-love #possession #love

In public, you’re Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you’re Jocelyn Butler—you’re hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet,” he breathed. “I like that I know that. I don’t like the fact that other men do too. ↗

— Samantha Young

#possessive #sexy #men

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#appear #blow #colonial #colonialism #death

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#change #desire #every #his #hospital

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. ↗

— David Livingstone

#christ #except #i #kingdom #may

Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road. ↗

— Eric Massa

#british #burned #debt #declaration #either

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. ↗

— Edgar Lee Masters

#gift #immortality #mightily #only #possess

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#diamonds #happy #horses #i #i am

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brain #cognition #content #contentment #creativity