A Quote by Ashly Lorenzana
I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.
Related Quotes
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.
For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.
