Pastoral Resources

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

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.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

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

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

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.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

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