237 Quotes About Ownership

Ownership: 'A commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix the blame.

No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while.

There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.

That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working on it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dangerous, Shevek?”“Why, because you know that in the eyes of men you are a thing, a thing owned, bought, sold. And so you think only of tricking the owners, of getting revenge –”...

They own you. Why do you let them? They own you they because they own your dreams, and what you dream of is being one of them. Dream differently. Own your own dreams. Own yourself.