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“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have—everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“You, Jane, I must have you for my own—entirely my own.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“When the taste for physical gratifications amongst such a people has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away, and lose all self-restraint, at the sight of the...” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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