Quotes About Ownership

For as long as the Source entrusts something to your hands, treat it as something borrowed, like a traveller at an inn.

Loss and sorrow are only possible with respect to things we own.

If you take care of it and identify with it, you will never be blocked or frustrated; you won't have to complain, and never will need to blame or flatter anyone.

distinguish between your own and not your own, the things which are in your power and not in your power

What are you going to get when you trade your freedom away? Check to see what your proud new possessions will be worth.

But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control.

ce vase, devenant désirable, était devenu mon maître; et à l'instant même où il s'était brisé, il avait encore assuré sa domination sur moi, puisqu'il s'était emparé de mes émotions. Il m'appartenait, je lui appartenais plus encore. [L'invisible-1] Milarepa

For Genovese, slave owners' moral commitment to slavery was the foundation of a distinctive worldview that explained secession and the creation of the Confederacy.

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.

Uno no tiene por qué pedir disculpas si quiere ser el dueño de su propia alma... para bien o para mal. Cuando ya todo se ha dicho y hecho, es todo cuanto queda.

You did not have to apologize for wanting to own your own soul. Your soul belonged to you—for better or worse. When all was said and done, it was all you had.

if sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body - and with it your own voice - and that's the most revolutionary insight of all

Quel homme possède jamais une femme ? Quel homme possède jamais la vérité ?

It doesn't matter,' Monsieur Ibrahim said. 'Your love for her belongs to you. It is yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, that's all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!

Iubirea ta este numai a ta. ÎÈ›i aparÈ›ine. Chiar dac? ea o refuz?, nu poate schimba nimic. Doar c? nu profit?. Momo, ceea ce oferi r?mâne la tine mereu; ceea ce p?strezi este pierdut pentru totdeauna.

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

What a gift! To control the uncontrollable. To be loved. To own love. To own a love.

This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me. I

You'll never truly be happy until you've found a place that you can call your own. A place that will be in your heart.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

It's not your fault. But healing your own pain does belong to you now.

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My heart, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My story, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.