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Shannon L. Alder
“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 own life's happiness.”
Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder
“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 give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain.”
Shannon L. Alder

Tove Jansson
“It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.”
Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

Michael Bassey Johnson
“True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

Seneca
“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 scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, not instructed, but burdened by the mass of them, and it is much better to surrender yourself to a few authors than to wander through many.”
Seneca, Treatises: On Providence, On Tranquility of Mind, On Shortness of Life, On Happy Life

Shannon L. Alder
“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.”
Shannon L. Alder

Gillian Johns
“We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.”
Gillian Duce

Chris Campanioni
“To own beauty is the first lie of it.”
Chris Campanioni, In Conversation

Anthony Liccione
“It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.”
Anthony Liccione

J.J. Brown
“So much for land ownership, Henry thinks; it's a modern myth. You can buy and sell rights to use the land; you can't actually own it. He tries to remember who said, the land doesn't belong to you, you belong to the land; the author was certainly Native American, but he can't pin down the source.”
J.J. Brown, Brindle 24

Toni Morrison
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right-- that his judgment and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Hagar, don't. It's a bad word, 'belong'. Especially when you put it with somebody you love.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

John Steinbeck
“They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Peter Walsh
“Experts have called behaviorial economists have noted an issue they call the endowment effect, Dr.Tolin says. Merely owning an item causes you to exaggerate its value, or "endow" it with more worth..... But the endowment effect can make even insignificant items feel more important to you.--pg17 Even when people don't talk about feeling responsible for an item and they don't fell like the item is too important to get rid of because it's THEIRS - and that's all there is to it. --p18”
Peter Walsh, Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight: The Six-Week Total-Life Slim Down

“Own your mistakes, learn from them; apologize if you have to, and then, be unapologetically you.”
TemitOpe Ibrahim

Ahmet Şerif İzgören
“Sahiplenme için özellikle dokunmayı kullanırız. Bir düğün salonuna girerken, sevgilimize, eşimize sarılır veya dokunuruz. Bu dokunuşu “Bu benim ona göre!” anlamında kullanırız. Genelde hanımlar bu mesajı etrafa vermede bizden daha kibar oldukları için, bizim yaptığımız gibi kollarıyla bir boğma harekâtına girmek yerine, üzerinizden olmayan kepekleri silkelerler ya da ceketinizden hayali saçlar toplarlar. Zaten sıkı olan kravatınızı dilinizi dışarı çıkaracak şekilde sıkarlar. Bu, diğer dişilere “Bu adam benim, bulana kadar canım çıktı, kimse yanaşmasın” mesajını verir. Siz saf saf “Dün kafa üstü düştüm, dönüp bakmadı. Şimdi kravatımı düzeltiyor, değerimi anladı. Rabbime şükürler olsun!” diye düşünürken, o etrafa gerekli mesajı vermektedir.”
Ahmet Şerif İzgören, Dikkat Vücudunuz Konuşuyor

Shannon L. Alder
“An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.”
Shannon L. Alder

Israelmore Ayivor
“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 know!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

Danielle Valenilla
“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.”
Danielle Valenilla, Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

“Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.”
Sunday Adelaja

Sung Yee Poon
“In the Universe all things have their owner; and if it does not belong to me, not a tiny speck can I take. Encounter fresh breeze on the river or bright moon between the hills, any ears can take as music and eyes as sights; nothing prohibits anyone from taking and it will never be depleted with consumption, they are Creator’s infinite treasures delighting both you and I. (from Red Cliff Rhapsody by Su Shih)”
Sung Yee Poon, MILLENNIUM CHARM Three Novellas. Conflicts.Dislocation. Loss

Dennis Vickers
“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 figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on or work is a bad idea too.”
Dennis Vickers, Mikawadizi Storms

Orrin Woodward
“God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.”
Orrin Woodward

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

Amanda Mosher
“Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!”
Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

C.J. Cherryh
“My name’s Elai, Ellai’s daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you’re on my land.”
C.J. Cherryh, Forty Thousand in Gehenna

James Carlos Blake
“The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.”
James Carlos Blake

Deborah Meyler
“I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them; that was important too.”
Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore