Quotes About Ownership

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blaming someone else is often much easier than taking responsibility. It was a national epidemic, along with stupidity and partisanship.

Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don't even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn't mine: it's me.

To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

Everything belongs to someone else, except the pain of not having it.

The world belongs to those who don't feel. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of sensibility.

Everything belongs to others except my regret that it doesn't belong to me.

Vive tu vida y no seas vivido por ella. Tanto en la verdad como en el error, tanto en el gozo como en el malestar, sé tu propio ser.

Poseemos algo? Si ni siquiera sabemos lo que somos, ¿cómo hemos de saber lo que poseemos?

To possess is to be possessed, and therefore to lose oneself.

We are eternal travelers of ourselves, and the only landscape that exists is what we are. We possess nothing, because we do not even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hands will I reach out to what universe? The universe is not mine: it is me.

La verdad es que las cosas que tenemos nos tienen ellas también a nosotros en contrapartida: lo que poseemos nos posee.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

I want Edelman to remain a family business.

We're very lucky because our fan base is so dedicated that they want to have a hard copy of our album. They want to own it, have it in their hands.

Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

An artist is his own fault.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.