Quotes About Ownership

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.

I still lack humility. I still tend to make life about my plan, my feelings, my desires, and my expectations. I am still tempted to assess the "good" of a day by whether it pleased me versus whether I pleased God and was loving toward others. I still am tempted to live as if I own my life and still fail to remember that I was bought with a price.

Someone once said that you never see a person in a protest carrying a sign with an arrow pointing downward and with the words "I am the problem" painted on it.

This materialistic and competitive striving and needing 'to have and own' has been linked to deteriorating mental health, especially in young people.16

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Your friend has an odd sense of color combinations." "The house belongs to an ex-cop," I said, as if that explained it.

A track on iTunes costs next to zero to store on Apple's server, and next to zero to transmit to my computer. Whatever it cost the record company to produce (in terms of artist fees and marketing costs) it costs me 99p simply because it's unlawful to copy it for free. The

Every time we are upset, we must admit to ourselves that we have chosen to be upset, no one has made us upset.

As victims, we aren't responsible for our lives. We blame someone else. However, this statement is true for me, and it's true for every one else: My life is my responsibility

As victims, we aren't responsible for our lives. We blame someone else. However, this statement is true for me, and it's true for every one else: My life is my responsibility. The circumstances of my life don't determine the quality of my life; the quality of my life is determined by my reaction to circumstances.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

Anita, she won't take responsibility for her actions and complains that she's always the "victim.

take your life back Don't delay your own happiness. Grab it right now. There are many things you can do today to take your life back. Take some time off to reflect.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Filosofische posities krijgen hun ware objectiviteit alleen wanneer de lezer ze zich zelf toeëigent, wanneer hij ze voor eigen rekening zelf na-denkt, en zo de gedachten van anderen tot zijn eigen, opnieuw persoonlijke gedachten maakt.

One day you might want to train for other owners, maybe even for Delamere. You've got the right base and you've the instincts." "Get my trainer's licence, you mean? Has a woman done that?" "Maybe not. But there aren't any rules against it." "I could try…. " I let the words trail away.

You're trampling my pasture." I

D had formed the committee a few months before, part of a new effort to combat the old problem of just who had a right to Kenya, and why. White settlers had always been keen on self-rule, which amounted to something more like total domination of the territory.

Remember no one made you do anything. It's never anyone but you who does anything, and for that reason alone you shouldn't be sorry.

It sounds like caveman stuff to me. If he keeps you in animal skins, tending the cook fire, no other man will see you, let alone want you.

I have three cats, and they have fleas. But they never go out, so if they have fleas, they got them from me. I feel like kind of an ass for making them wear the collars.

Herb Gardner wrote, You have to own your days, every one of them, Or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.2

In America, a woman's body seemed to belong to everybody but herself. Her sexuality belonged to her husband, her opinion of herself belonged to her social circles, and her uterus belonged to the government.