Possession Quotes

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On the contrary, a man could be without a doubt lit with the strength, the peace, and the knowledge of the gods, his gods, but when or if the devils grow weary in unsuccessful attempts to torment him, they begin tormenting his loved ones, or, if not his loved ones, anyone who may attempt to grasp his philosophies. No matter how godly he may become, God is, in the end, his only hope and his only grace for the pressures built around him - it is left up to a higher authority and a more solid peace and a wider love to eclipse not just one's own evils but all evils for goodness to ultimately matter. If all men were gods, each being would dwell in a separate prison cell, hopeless, before finally imploding into nothingness.

~ Criss Jami

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

~ Chuck Barris

Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.

~ Simona Panova

It is unfortunate that many people today cannot appreciate the value that every man possesses.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Happiness is not a thing - it is a feeling, a way of joyful living and being. It comes from inner fulfilment and appreciating the world you live in.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

~ Peter Prange

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

~ Peter Prange

The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people had all the time but did nothing with it. They died leaving behind no invention or product that they could be remembered for.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured or valued by men who still possess it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.

~ Nenia Campbell

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

~ Jared Diamond

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

~ Jay Woodman

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here, only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces. The men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels. There you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit, because our men and women are free possessing nothing. They are free. And you, the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail, each alone, solitary with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes, the wall, the wall.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

~ Jeffrey Fry

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.

~ Elena Ferrante

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

~ Hannah Rothschild

I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no pain in losing what you never had.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

~ Sunday Adelaja

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

~ Thomas Hardy

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

~ Charles Hart

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

His heart is the rhythm, mine is the echo.

~ A. Zavarelli

One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

~ Matthew Sawyer

He spun round under her grip. She smelled so good, her touch so soft as she unhooked the buttons on his tunic. Pushing the shirt apart she frowned, her hands running over the thin scars through his tattoos. ‘And you belong to him, too.

~ Jessica O'toole