#session

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#sharing #change

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

My couch is my deathbed, and I won’t let my life get repossessed. ↗

— Bauvard

#death #funny #humor #life #repossession

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#materialism #perception #quality #value #design

I feel something familiar about this place. This house…” I dragged out a hand and gestured towards it with my thumb. “I dream about it. I’ve been dreaming about it for years. Being in it.” I had her attention. “With you. ↗

— Sofia Grey

#grey-mansion #josh-delaney #obsession #suki-bridgewater #dreams

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#materialism #posessions #freedom

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

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen. ↗

— Ruth Downie

#self-possession #self-worth #strength-of-a-woman #strength-through-adversity #freedom

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ↗

— George Meredith

#felicity #object #obligation #possessed #possession

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#complete #down #ever #journey #last