A Quote by Ella Maillart

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. — © Ella Maillart
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.
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.
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.
Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.
When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.
I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.
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