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And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess

This is the truth: we all desire to conquer the comely one, because it affirms our own worth. Speaking for the men of the world, we want to own the beauty of the woman we're fucking. We want to grasp that beauty, tightly in our greedy little fingers, to well and truly possess it, to make it ours. We want to do this as the woman shines her way through an orgasm. That's perfection. And while I can't speak for women, I imagine that they-whether they admit it or not-want the same thing: to possess the man, to own his rough handsomeness, if only for a few seconds.

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

To possess something and not know its value is torturous.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.

Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.

He begins to want. He begins to crave. He wants to possess. His mind finally begins to process, to think and plan...He gives her his darkest, most serious look. He's telling her 'get ready, here we go.

In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what__ there, and not angry for what__ not.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

You were placed there by God for a reason, which is to possess the land for the glory of the KING!