#sessions

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#books #boyfriend #choices #faith #family

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#possessions #value #world #life

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

#deserves #fears #greatest #national #people

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#environment #environmental-protection #materialism #possessions #environment

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liberty #most #possessions #precious

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#become #draw #family #feel #friends

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. ↗

— Democritus

#dwells #gold #happiness #possessions #resides

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#kill #obsessions #sexual #their #trouble