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Quotes About Ownership

The second unwholesome action to avoid is stealing—taking that which doesn't belong to us.
~ Joseph Goldstein
the only things that can be said to truly belong to us are our actions and their results;
~ Joseph Goldstein
One thing you need to remember and understand is that you cannot leave the mind alone. It needs to be watched constantly. If you do not look after your garden it will overgrow with weeds. If you do not watch your mind, defilements will grow and multiply. The mind does not belong to you, but you are responsible for it.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Actually, ownership is a thought process independent of the actual relationship that exists between us and objects in the world. Freeing ourselves from attachment to "ownership" frees us from our enslavement to objects.
~ Joseph Goldstein
E piciorul meu. - Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer. Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.
~ Joseph Heller
Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer.Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.
~ Joseph Heller
Nobody is sure anymore who really runs the company (not even the people who are credited with running it), but the company does run.
~ Joseph Heller
You love the life you've lived because it is yours.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She felt her pounding heart. Her hand seemed to enclose it. She thought for the first time in her life that it was nothing that was hers, that belonged to her, but just a pounding, living thing inside this body that wasn't really hers either.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The curiosity of the book was that, as you held it, and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing, which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook, you stored it, or deleted it; you felt no sentiment or particular ownership.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Once you own things you have to be afraid of them. Of losing them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The curiosity of the book was that,as you held it,and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing,which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook,you stored it,or deleted it;you felt no sentiment or particular ownership. You could not see it on a shelf or a table,you could not admire its design. In effect,it had been Deleted.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
At the LaPortes' she'd bathed twice. The first time at about 4:30 AM, which she couldn't remember very clearly and the second time at 9:30 A.M. and Trisha had still been asleep in her bed or pretending to be asleep. The gentle tick-ticking of a bedside clock. Hours of that clock, hours unmoving beneath the covers of a bed not her own in a house not her own.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
~ Joyce James
On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.
~ Joyce Meyer
Asking for something is easy… being responsible for it is the part that develops character.
~ Joyce Meyer
No matter what we own, we will not be happy if doing God's will is not a priority in our lives.
~ Joyce Meyer
If you find yourself cluttered up and done in by disorganization, ask yourself why you seem to hang on to everything that comes your way. Do you feel obligated to keep it just because someone gave it to you? Of course, we don't want to hurt people's feelings, but on the other hand, if a gift is given correctly, it comes with no strings attached. If someone truly gives you a gift, it should be yours to do with as you please.
~ Joyce Meyer
A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.
~ Joyce Meyer
It was hard to borrow money to buy a house.
~ Joyce Milton
Juvencio Nava, tuvo que matar por eso; por ser el dueño de la Puerta de Piedra y que, siendo también su compadre, le negó el pasto para sus animales. Primero se aguantó por puro compromiso.
~ Juan Rulfo
You made your bed; now, you can die in it.
~ Judith Fitzgerald
He smiled. 'Now I have you in a cage.And whenever I want you,I'll take you out, and when I've done with you, I'll set you back in.
~ Judith Rossner
Oh who owns the school? Oh who owns the school? Oh who owns the school? the people saaaayyyy. . . . Oh we own the school Oh we own the school 'Cause we are sixth graaaaders today!
~ Judy Blume