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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. -- Napoleon Hill
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. -- Benjamin Franklin
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not. -- Dorothea Dix
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. -- Clara Schumann
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. -- Khalil Gibran
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. -- Jerzy Kosinski
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. -- Euripides
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. -- Samuel Johnson
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. -- Elizabeth Taylor
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. -- Bill Owens
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
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. -- Kate Chopin
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. -- Moses Mendelssohn
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. -- Vida Dutton Scudder
Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it. -- Francoise Mallet-Joris
The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it. -- Robert Cialdini
The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing. -- Chris Matakas
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. -- Aristotle
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it. -- Paul Johnson
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply. -- Alan Cinis
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. -- Nicolas Berggruen
Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader. -- Mark W Boyer
Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others. -- Paul Washer
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles. -- Anne Ursu
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. -- Adi Shankara
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less. -- Benito Mussolini
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans? -- Peter Singer
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not â?? self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives. -- Pam Brown
Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own. -- Arthur Frommer

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