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Letter "P" » possessing
«The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Dreams,
Reality
| Keywords:
dreamed, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, participant, participants, possessing, realities, the participants, The Re
«We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.»
«The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.»
Author: Ruth Bernhard
| Keywords:
cosmic, dissolving, formations, possessing, radiant, radiant energy, The Clouds, walk-on
«Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
Delicious, glasses, possessing, served, The Magic
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.»
Author: William Congreve
| About:
Expectation,
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
chase, discovers, expectation, insipid, overtaking, possessing, The Chase, uncertainty
«There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.»
«Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
academic, Academics, hundreds, information, journalism, possessing, shred, shredded, solid, solidest, thanks, topic, training, virtually
«The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
altogether, articulately, dimension, impulses, in a way, mystical, originate in, plunge, possessing, region, sensible, supernatural, understandable
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