A Quote by Robert Hugh Benson

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Robert Hugh Benson

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Robert Hugh Benson
November 18, 1871 - October 19, 1914

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Tryon Edwards

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

To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.

Peter Julian Eymard

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

Fulton J. Sheen

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.

Susan Sontag

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

Wei Wu Wei

Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.

Sri Chinmoy

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Morihei Ueshiba

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

Ivan Panin

They were afraid of your authentic love, because authentic love is beyond their control.You are possessed by it. You? are not the possessor, you are the possessed. And every society wants you to be in control. The society is afraid of your wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness, so from the very beginning it starts cutting your wings. And the most basic thing which is dangerous in you is the possibility of love, because if you are possessed by love you can go even against the whole world.

Rajneesh

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

William Boyd

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Sydney J. Harris

The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.