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Ownership Quotes


"If a man own land the land owns him."


"It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them."


"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."


"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."



"One man told me, 'My tooth is hurting'. Why would 'your' tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!"



"One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it."


"If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you."


"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."


"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate."



"As long as you are the owner ('I am Chandubhai and all this is mine'), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away."


"Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours."


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



"I' have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to 'see', if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner."


"So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life."



"Other's power, other's enjoyments, other's space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one's self. If they become the owners of 'Self', death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul."


"The only person to blame for your situation is you."



"That which the entire world regards as 'mine', it is [really] 'not mine'; this Knowledge itself is the Self, the Soul."


"Everything you have is bought by the currency of time."


"The moment you choose to be accountable for all outcomes in your life, you distance yourself from the position of a victim and assume the role of a change agent."
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