Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
We do not possess an 'ego. ' We are possessed by the idea of one.
And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
More than a process, painting is being possessed.
There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.
every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer. . .
There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.
I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?
A crisis allows us the opportunity to dig deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Through adversity, we come face to face with who we really are and what really counts.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.