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...

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...

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City,...

my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

Page 142: “When a spouse says to the alcoholic, “you need to go to AA,” that is obviously not true. The addict feels no need to do that at all, and isn’t. But when she...

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He...

Nothing in the tangible word that isn’t living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to...

That’s not in my yard.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

The bank – the monster has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting...

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

Exactly. That’s what’s been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You’ve been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you...

Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can...

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