Quotes About Ownership

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on.

The house with the pomegranate tree was my major acquisition. In this sense, I owned some unreal estate. The odd thing was that every time I tried to see myself inside this grand old house, I felt sad. It was as if the search for home was the point, and now that I had acquired it and the chase was over, there were no more branches to put in the fire.

You're so beautiful. I can't believe you're almost mine.

The Great Spirit raised both the white man and the Indian," Red Cloud said. "I think he raised the Indian first. He raised me in this land and it belongs to me. The white man was raised over the great waters, and his land is over there. Since they crossed the sea, I have given them room. There are now white people all about me. I have but a small spot of land left. The Great Spirit told me to keep it.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. —TASHUNKA WITKO (CRAZY HORSE)

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)

With every inhalation, I take. With every exhalation, I give. How grand it is not to buy, sell, hold, or hoard breath. Would that it were so with money. Enjoy breathing while you can, for unless something changes, it won't be long until government awards ownership of the atmosphere to some commercial corporation to price and meter out as they please.

Sesungguhnya Anda memang tidak perlu berusaha memiliki apa-apa. Anda adalah segalanya. Sekarang, tidakkah Anda heran dengan orang-orang yang menguras seluruh energinya untuk mempertahankan sesuatu? Mencoba memiliki apa yang sebenarnya sudah milik mereka? Justru ketika Anda melepaskan keterikatan pada sesuatu, Anda semakin dekat dengan keutuhan.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself.

Humans didn't take out an exclusive deed on reality—we just assume we did, perhaps out of our self-inflicted sense of superiority.

Tagore: "Power said to the world, 'You are mine.' Love said to the world, 'I am yours.' Love won.

I realize that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build ourselves out of what we think we remember, what we believe to be true about our life; and the possessions we gather around us are supposedly a part of this, that we are, to some extent what we own.

Human capital is of course much more equally distributed than ownership of factories or ships. We own ourselves, even if we are poor in stocks and bonds. Focusing on financial wealth is therefore misleading.

The most important feature to consider is cost, which has the potential to significantly impact returns over the long term. There is absolutely no reason to pay more than a few basis points to own an index fund.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

she isn't mine ... . She is ultimately God's, and I'm simply a steward of her heart for a season.

George often bought books from publishers in an unbound state, then had the volumes bound according to his own preferences

Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes in the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you. I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish. You think I don't know you've been living under my porch. You long for a real place to be readied before winter comes. You need the right to warn off intruders, to consider my house your own and me your person and yourself my own dog.

If guns kill people," Ivy moved next to her uncle and stared down Kip, "Then pens misspell words, cars cause accidents, and forks make people gain weight.

We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

La vida es siempre lo que hacemos de ella. no puede ser tuyo si usted permite que otros escriben en las páginas en blanco de su libro de la vida. Debe hacerse cargo y llevar su vida de la manera que cree que debería, con los valores en los que crees. Empezar a escribir los capítulos de su libro de la vida con sus propias palabras maravillosas, no dictadas por otros. Buena Suerte!

Nous ne devons pas sentir mal parce que quelqu'un vole nos idées. ça arrive. Nous, à la place, devrions nous sentir mauvais qu'ils ne disposaient pas tout de leur propre pour commencer. - Deo