#possess

Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#taj-mahal #true-love #love

Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts. ↗

— Toba Beta

#willingness-to-possess #love

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#alpha-male #alpha-male-declaration-of-love #alpha-males #fans #love

My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scratches looked suspiciously like letters. I climbed on a chair and looked at it from above. MINE. Oh, that's great. Fantastic. So mature. Perhaps he would pull my pigtails next or stick a tack on my seat. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#possessive-hero #maturity

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#consider #hesitation #his #man #material

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#belong #body #does #inn #morning

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#ever #out #possession #soul #their

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. ↗

— Abdallah II

#dispossessed #division #earth #extremists #global

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#already #any #ask #book #cannot

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