#posses

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The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I have had a horror of vice and it was not without a quite understandable terror that I discerned the pleasure I felt in the embrace of this vigorous bush whose branches gradually mingled with my limbs, my hair and my looks. When one of its flowers came apart in my mouth, I could feel myself grasping the sorcerer in my arms in my turn. He was transformed into a torrent, and I was a barge, into desert and I was smoke, into a car and I was a road, into a man and I was a woman. 'What we are doing is very wrong,' he said and was off.


Robert Desnos


#pleasure #possesssion #sorcerer #terror #vice

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people.


Jared Diamond


#dispossession #environment #equality #extermination #morality

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#dependence-on-god #faith #insurance #material-goods #possessions

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.


Jane Austen


#classics #marriage #men #possessiveness #single-men

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.


Rebecca Wells


#glimmers #home #life #light #possessions

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?


John Wesley


#christianity #clothing #compassion #evangelism #faithfulness

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.


Joshua Becker


#possessions #simplicity #home

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.


Bryant McGill


#ownership #possession #freedom

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.


Jeffrey Fry


#freedom #love #possession #power #freedom

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.


Rod Serling


#curse #happens #others #people #possess