Pastoral Resources

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.