#posse

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I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.


Satish Kumar


#extreme #go #grew #had #i

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.


Hans Kung


#being #color #dignity #distinction #every

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.


Anna Quindlen


#stuff #things #beauty

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.


Bertrand Russell


#else #freely #living #more #more than anything

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#any #become #being #could #die

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.


George Santayana


#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.


George Santayana


#better #children #exertions #expected #happier

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#great #great talent #honesty #hypocrisy #limited

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#certain time #chance #demanded #every #happiness

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.


Matthew Simpson


#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature