#possession

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

#better #children #exertions #expected #happier

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#citizenship #inhumanity #possession #precious #terrorism

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#his #man #memory #nothing #poor

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#alone #give #giving #greatest #intangible

I don't like Paradise, As they probably don't have obsessions there. ↗

— Alda Merini

#heaven #materialism #paradise #possessions #afterlife

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adulthood #blunt #finding-yourself #genius #honest

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

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

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#enough #love #mind #possessions #soil