#posse

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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.


John Randolph


#once #our #perishable #possessions #time

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.


Wendell Berry


#possessed #life

Did the harebell loose her girdle To the lover bee, Would the bee the harebell hallow Much as formerly?


Emily Dickinson


#poetry-quotes-love #possession #love

The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look for ways to make us jealous of him, though he, the God Most High, is jealous for us.


John D. Richardson


#god-s-love #humanity #jealous #love #money

Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed.


A.S. Byatt


#ines-de-castro #love #pedro-of-portugal #possession #love

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.


Simone Signoret


#love #marriage #possessiveness #love

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.


Héloïse d'Argenteuil


#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#possess #understand #whatever #you

He didn’t say a word and she didn’t ask anything else, just ran her fingers through his hair until his breathing began to calm. Without letting go of her or even pulling away to face her he finally whispered against her ear, “Please don’t leave me. I promise I’ll try harder.” Slowly he pulled away and their eyes met. “I’m nothing without you, Izzy.


Elizabeth Reyes


#possessive-hero #romero #sexy-men #men

In public, you’re Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you’re Jocelyn Butler—you’re hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet,” he breathed. “I like that I know that. I don’t like the fact that other men do too.


Samantha Young


#possessive #sexy #men