Pastoral Resources

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

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.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

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

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.