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“Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Unrequited Love
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Pain And Pleasure
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Emotional Despair
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Distance
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Boredom
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Possession
32.
“The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying not the possessing, that makes us happy.”
Michelangelo
Fortune's Joy
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True Happiness
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Enjoyment
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Possession
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Taste
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Happy
33.
“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
Eckhart Tolle
Loss
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Identity
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Self
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Being
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Possession
34.
“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.”
Eckhart Tolle
Love
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Ego
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Desire
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Possession
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Relationships
35.
“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”
Stephen Covey
Possession
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Sharing
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Generosity
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Self-awareness
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Balance
36.
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
Napoleon Hill
Happiness
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Action
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Fulfillment
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Possession
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Life
37.
“Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It’s ours, it is, and we wants it.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Obsession
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Desire
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Possession
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Precious
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Greed
38.
“He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.”
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth
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Possession
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Control
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Freedom
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Perspective
39.
“Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Desire
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Beauty
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Possession
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Perception
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Experience
40.
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
Bruce Lee
Possession
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Mindset
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Awareness
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Perception
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Growth
41.
“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
Ernest Hemingway
Possession
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Belonging
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Writing
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Reflection
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Connection
42.
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde
Riches
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Soul
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Possession
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Precious
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Security
43.
“Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.”
John Lennon
Possession
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Law
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Problems
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Attachment
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Society
44.
“For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.”
William Shakespeare
Loss
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Value
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Possession
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Appreciation
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Virtue
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