Quotes About Ownership

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

If you want change you must take full responsibility for yourself. No one else defines how you live. You are the only one with the power for your self-change.

One is always a good master when one isn't the master

Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.

Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

The game, the game: here we go again. All glory to it, all things I am and own because of Roller Ball Murder.

Desde el momento en que Colón vio cruzar por el cielo esos pájaros desconocidos y Rodrigo de Triana gritó bajo la noche esa palabra, aquí toda la tierra es el mapa de una ambición: forcejear por las selvas es el oficio de los brazos enguantados de acero, y los que se apropiaron de la tierra de otros no vacilan jamás en verter sangre, por amiga que sea, para sostener ante Dios que la propiedad es sagrada

Keep away. The sow is mine.

Renunciation simply means a state of un-attachment. A big house and a new car should be enjoyed to their fullest so long as we accept them as things that can and will go away. We never really own anything; we hold title, rent, lease, use, and borrow things during our short visit here. Impermanence is just another name for perfection.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own.

Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?

We go to gain a little patch of groundThat hath in it no profit but the name.

For it so falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhiles it was ours.