A Quote by Laozi

To have little is to possess.

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

Christine de Pizan

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Susan Sontag

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

Cameron Diaz

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

Ashly Lorenzana

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

Frederick Lenz

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Rachel Naomi Remen

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Frank Sinatra

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

T. S. Eliot

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.

Napoleon Hill

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

John C. Maxwell

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

Janet Flanner

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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