Quotes About Ownership

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Not to share one's goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken

We remain because this our home. We both have lost land here. Should we leave it all to them? I will not.

a judge in Vermont ruled in favor of a runaway slave whose master had produced a bill of sale proving his ownership: the judge said in order to retain his property in the form of another man he'd have to provide a bill of sale from "God Almighty." 17

FDR's solicitor general said the Second Amendment had nothing to do with an individual right to own a gun; it had to do with the common defense. The court agreed, unanimously.2

You can't shroud yourself in self-pity to avoid accountability. I will

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.