Pastoral Resources

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

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

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.