“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”
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“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”
“Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.”
“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”
“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks when we do? We've all been there. You want something, you possess it - and by possessing it, you lose it. ”
“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”