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Possession Quotes by Famous Authors
Explore the best timeless quotes on Possession, including thoughts on Possession. Discover the best Possession quotes by renowned authors.
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“Why cannot you look calmly at a woman unless she is yours?”
Anton Chekhov
Jealousy
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Possession
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Love
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Insecurity
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Relationships
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“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”
Stendhal
Society
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Luxury
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Desire
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Possession
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Status
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“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”
Seneca
Sharing
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Joy
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Possession
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Generosity
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Community
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“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
Seneca
Wealth
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Burden
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Power
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Responsibility
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Possession
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“A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”
Hippocrates
Wise Man
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Health
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Valuable
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Possession
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Realization
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“Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
Virtue
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Possession
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Morality
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Materialism
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Wisdom
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“What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Giving
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Wealth
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Possession
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Generosity
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Legacy
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“Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God’s because He loves.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Love
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Possession
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Relationship
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Devotion
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Spirituality
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“I recover my property wherever I find it.”
Moliere
Justice
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Ownership
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Law
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Rights
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Possession
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“Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.”
Thomas Carlyle
Kingdom
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Have
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Do
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Action
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Possession
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“Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.”
Thomas Carlyle
Possession
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Action
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Worth
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Value
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Purpose
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“The wealthy man is the man who is much, not the one who has much.”
Karl Marx
Wealth
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Identity
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Being
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Possession
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Self
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“All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.”
Baruch Spinoza
Possession
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Desire
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Hindrance
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Society
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Attachment
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“If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness
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God
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Possession
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Joy
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Inner Peace
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“All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.”
Osho Rajneesh
Possession
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Foolishness
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Desire
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Freedom
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Materialism
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“First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interest was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possession.”
Osho Rajneesh
Possession
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Relationships
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Ego
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Attachment
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Marriage
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.”
Denis Waitley
Happiness
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Travel
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Possession
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Inner Peace
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Fulfillment
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“To model an object is to possess it.”
Pablo Picasso
Modeling
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Possession
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Creativity
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Object Art
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Artistic Connection
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“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”
Yoko Ono
Impermanence
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Possession
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Loss
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Philosophy
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Life
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“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
Fear
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Death
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Possession
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Suffering
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Self-Knowledge
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“There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.”
Gloria Steinem
Crime
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Passion
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Possession
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Justice
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Human Nature
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“The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.”
Zora Neale Hurston
Desire
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Ambition
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Possession
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Competition
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Excitement
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“When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They’d look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them.”
Zora Neale Hurston
Wealth
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Envy
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Possession
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Perception
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Judgment
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“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Loneliness
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Possession
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Human Connection
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Existential Reflection
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Value Of Society
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“Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.”
Jonathan Swift
Possession
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Law
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Value
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Society
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Observation
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“The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”
Jackie Robinson
Dignity
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Treasure
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Luxurious
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Possession
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Self-Worth
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“I’ll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I’ll make you me.”
Margaret Atwood
Love
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Possession
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Relationships
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Identity
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Literary Reflections
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“Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.”
Dante Alighieri
Love
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Possession
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Familiarity
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Deep Emotions
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Personal Connection
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“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Understanding
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Possession
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Knowledge
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Limitation
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Human Nature
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“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Possession
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Loss
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Memory
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Perception
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Nostalgia
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