Quotes about Ownership

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

The wish to have everything by one's own power is false pride. Even what one owes to others belongs nevertheless to oneself and is a piece of one's own life, and the desire to calculate what one has 'earned' on one's own and what one owes to others is surely not Christian and is a futile undertaking besides. With what one is in oneself and what one receives, a person is a whole.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.