Possession
The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.
To invest with property.
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Possession Quotations
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce Lee
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Possession Translations
possession in Afrikaans is besit
possession in Danish is ejendom, besiddelse
possession in Dutch is bezitting, eigendom, bezit
possession in French is possession
possession in German is besitz
possession in Italian is possesso
possession in Latin is possessio
possession in Norwegian is eiendom
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