Quotes About Ownership

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

for the love of God, if you want freedom and joy so much, can't you see it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it's yours, and it is!

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. Richard Bach

EÄŸer olanlar hiçbir zaman sizin hatan?z deÄŸilse, sorumluluk alam?yorsunuz demektir. EÄŸer hiçbir ÅŸeyin sorumluluÄŸunu üstlenemiyorsan?z, daima bir ÅŸeylerin maÄŸduru olursunuz.

for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they're       yours.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

Admit that you're wrong- or that you've made a mistake.

Together—though perhaps only together—they were fully formed. They stayed on the road. Life went on as it had, from the thirties straight into the forties. They owned little—a bit of furniture, their clothes, no car.

Capitalism , as Marx defined it, is a system in which productive wealth is privately owned. Communism (which Marx proposed as an alternative) is one in which productive wealth is owned by the community, or by the nation on behalf of the people.

What you feel is not yours. You need not own it. Creatures like these breed the fear in you as we fatten a buffalo calf, and with similar intent.

There was finely toned muscle in her legs, and a substantial biceps stood out when she lifted her arms. Exuberant breasts strained the fabric of the leotard. I wondered if the body was hers.

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.

Writing is a way not only to metabolize life but to alchemize it as well. It is a way to transform what happens to us in our own experience. It is a way to move from passive to active. We may still be the victims of circumstance, but by our understanding those circumstances we place events within the ongoing context of our own life, that is, the life we own.

We are not, as we had told ourselves, the victim of circumstances. We played an active part in our own undoing.

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do-able as picking up a hammer and pounding a nail. Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft. It is a simple and workable thing that can be as steady and reliable as a chore—does that ruin the romance?

No one belongs to us, and we belong to no one - not in that sense. This should free us, but it never quite does.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.

By now, I probably preferred secondhand books to new ones. In America such items were disparagingly referred to as "previously owned"; but this very continuity of ownership was part of their charm. A book dispensed its explanation of the world to one person, then another, and so on down the generations; different hands held the same book and drew sometimes the same, sometimes a different wisdom from it.

I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life.