A Quote by Italo Calvino

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino
Italian - Journalist
October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Aristotle

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Bryant H. McGill

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Gabriela Mistral

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

Brad Stevens

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

R.D. Blackmore

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

Georgia Harkness

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Georges Bataille

The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.

Marion G. Romney

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Heinz Pagels

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Samuel Smiles

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Susan Sontag

The greatest possession is self-possession.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. ? It's there for your pleasure.

Diana Vreeland

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Meir Kahane

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