#posses

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#man #possesses #talent

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#generosity #gentleness #possession #race #religion

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. ↗

— Walter Lang

#beings #greater #human #human beings #possess

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#devil #dull #jealous #mad #possessed

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it. ↗

— Ang Lee

#go #i #me #possesses #something

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#century #certain #decade #desires #done

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#accepting #back #demanding #even #expecting

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

#being #equal #harm #health #his