#possession

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ↗

— Herodotus

#most #possessions #precious

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#been #burned #gave #god #had

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

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. ↗

— Andre Breton

#booty #desire #industry #less #nothing

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#avoid #consciousness #devil #devils #evil

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. ↗

— Robert Collier

#belonging #possession #see #them #things

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#generosity #gentleness #possession #race #religion

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#always #been #both #cd #communication