No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.
I believe in ghosts and spirits, and I believe that they can possess you.
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems
Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something. "
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.