Thoughts on ownership

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Last Updated: May 05, 2021, 13:35 IST1 min
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Image: Awakeing / Getty ImagesYou own your own body, and with it your own voice—and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.—Erica JongAmerican novelist

Freedom begins the moment you realise someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.—Bill Moyers, American journalist & commentator

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Ownership is the only way to influence decisions—the right decisions.—Geeta Gupta-FiskerCo-founder & CFO, Fisker Inc

That’s what makes [the land] ours: Being born on it, working on it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.—John SteinbeckAmerican author & Nobel laureate

We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not.—Sarah M BroomAmerican writer

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What you really value in life is ownership, not money. If ever there is a choice—more money or more responsibility—you must always opt for the latter.—50 CentAmerican rapper

When you own your story, you get to write the ending.— Brené BrownAmerican researcher & author

By what right can anyone whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say, ‘This is mine, not yours’?—Pyotr KropotkinRussian revolutionary & economist

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You can have it all, but don’t expect to have it at exactly the same time.—Jane FraserCEO, Citigroup

The stupid mind thinks only in terms of possession. The man of insight thinks of utility.—OshoSpiritual leader

Once you have something—knowledge, skills, possessions—or have achieved something—climbing Mount Everest, for example—it becomes banal.—Reinhold MessnerItalian mountaineer

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To have so little, and it of so little value, is to be quaintly free.—Wallace StegnerAmerican novelist

First Published: May 05, 2021, 13:35

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