#possession

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

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

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#been #burned #gave #god #had

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#any #cannot #could #enough #force

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

— Andre Breton

#booty #desire #industry #less #nothing

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

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#culture #possessions #you

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#effect #few #few things #genial #had

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to. ↗

— Don Juan

#possession #warrior #courage

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people ↗

— Erich Fromm

#possession #experience