A Quote by Sara Teasdale

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

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Possessed Possessing Quite Worth

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Sara Teasdale
American - Author
August 8, 1884 - January 29, 1933

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

William Landay

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Robert Frost

Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.

Mikhail Naimy

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

Apollonius of Tyana

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Otto von Bismarck

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

J. G. Holland

... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

Anna Julia Cooper

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

William James

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

William Ellery Channing

The traits I picked from my conversation with Captain Gopinath was his honesty. He was completely possessed at each stage by what he was doing. When he was in the army, he was possessed there. He was possessed when he started Udupi hotel or while doing agriculture. He is a perfectionist and he is very impatient.

Sudha Kongara

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

John Fante

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.