#session

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#denial #god #possession #right #sin

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#love #obsession #beauty

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#possession #beauty

Without obsession, life is nothing. ↗

— John Waters

#nothing #obsession #without

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#culture #degree #developed #disney #empire

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conceive #day #i #i do #into

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#feelings #give #heart #much #overly

I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#horror-romance #owning #possession #relationship #sex

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. ↗

— John Barton

#completely #end #happen #hard #hold