Quotes About Ownership

No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house. - The Land of Tempers

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

Holly's mouth was a tight line as she shook her head. "Navy rules, Butler. You're on my boat, you follow my orders." "As I remember, I brought the boat." "Yes, thanks for bringing my boat.

Marineregels, Butler. Je bent op mijn boot, dus ik geef hier de bevelen.' 'Voor zover ik me kan herinneren heb ik die boot hiernaartoe gebracht.' 'Ja, bedankt dat je mijn boot hebt gebracht.

Hãy v?t ngay Ä'i cái gì không ph?i c?a ta. Hãy thanh l?c các ý ki?n c?a b?n ?? cái gì không thuá»™c v? b?n s? không bám l?y b?n, ??ng có dính vào Ä'ó và cÅ©ng ??ng Ä'au kh? khi ng??i ta tÆ°á»›c b? c?a b?n cái th? không thuá»™c v? b?n Ä'ó.

An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.

He wants what he cannot have, and does not want what he can't refuse — and isn't aware of it. He doesn't know the difference between his own possessions and others'. Because, if he did, he would never be thwarted of disappointed. Or nervous.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad," Epictetus said, Ã¢â'¬Å"don't blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations. . . .

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid.

Yes, but my nose is running.' Then what do you have hands for, you slave?

As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, "I have lost it" and instead say, "It has been returned to where it came from.

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but instead, "I have given it back.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions—in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing. The things that are up to us are by nature free, unhindered, and unimpeded; the things that are not up to us are weak, enslaved, hindered, not our own.

If a person had handed over your body to a stranger, you would certainly be angry. So why do you not feel any shame in handing over your own mind to any criticiser, to be unsettled and annoyed.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions – in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices. . .

Externals include the body and its members, as well as material goods. If you grow attached to any of them as if they were your own, you will incur the penalties prescribed for a thief.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don't blame another for your state of mind.

Do not say of anything "I have lost it," but rather, "I have given it back.