It is your life…OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage...

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it’s part of him, and it’s like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it...

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks...

One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully “own” and have “rights” to do whatever we want to land, water, air,...

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can’t be both.

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman...

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can’t resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

Don’t stop yourself from greatness before you’ve begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and...

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don’t fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

Do you remember what we just did? Please tell me you remember what we just did.”She briefly toyed with the idea of lying and saying no, just to see the look on his face, but...

What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.

It’s paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions...

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We...

Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it’s never about them. It’s only about you.

It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love … You can’t own a human being.

Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

…A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment–with its redefinition of personhood–is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a...

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!

I am sorry. I lost control and I wanted to completely own you in that moment. I wanted all of you.

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to...

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

you don’t have to worry about burning bridges, if you’re building your own

We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them….Long after he’s dead, someone else...

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...

It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

I learned that you can’t truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can...

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will...

They sell crap to buy you.

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

Touch and go, brother, that’s the rule. Don’t ever let yourself be owned.

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.

Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never...

People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don’t own it because it doesn’t belong to you!

I guess what I’m sayin’ is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.””Why be careful?” Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.”‘Cause she’ll damn well do...

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

All identification is for control and ownership.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

If you don’t choose to plant, don’t dream to harvest. Ownership precedes production and production comes as a result of deliberate choice.

Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else’s behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands...