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I'm not possessive, I'm caring ... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
Mine. It's all mine.Mine-- Angelo Dirks
My special possessions are my sacred family.
I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.
All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within.
What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.
True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement.
That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
And I, being a possessive caveman, wanted to prove a point. You're mine.
I'm protecting what's mine."
...
"I'm not yours," I said.
"You're welcome to think that but it doesn't change the fact that you are.
Self-possession depends on its environment.
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.
It only belongs to me
when I let go
Petra Hermans
Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
Entry is not equivalent to possession.
I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Possessiveness isn't love. I'm not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.
A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.
The Ownership Quotient,
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no
conflict at all.
Things do not belong to us but we belong to things.
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.
No one can take what is rightfully due to you. You can never possess anything which is rightfully not yours
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.
When you own something, you can call it what you want.Call-- Frank Lucas
The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has
The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us - and to which we have no right.
Every year I own less of what I use. Possession
To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
I own you. All things belong to the people who love them most.
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ...
Rilla," Raoul said, and at the sound of my childhood nickname, my heart gave a pang. "Don't I have the right to claim what is mine?"
"Of course you do," I said ... "But surely not at any cost.
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
Anymore, no one's mine is their own.
We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
We lose things.
And then we choose things.
And there are Louis's
And there are Georges-
Well, Louis's
And George.
A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.
People like to own things.
What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
It's strange to own anything, Beverly thinks, even your flesh, that nobody outside yourself ever touches or sees.
Nothing belongs to you or me. Nothing belongs. Everything, everything, everything simply IS.
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
We own the things that claim that we are theirs.
To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.Love-- Francine Jay
The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
One cannot have love without ownership
I' is Absolute; it has been possessed by the ghosts of 'my'!
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
I don't own you, you just belong to me.
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
Keep your pants on, asshole, and cut the possessive caveman crap.
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with
You have to name it to claim itClaim-- Phil Mcgraw
When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe
Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
Certain authors, speaking of their works, say: "My book," "My commentary," "My history," etc. They resemble middle-class people who have a house of their own and always have "My house" on their tongue.
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.
What I have is thine, what I gave away is always mine.
I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
For how can a man without property know the ache of ownership?
You don't share me. You own me.
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.
Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions - mine.
"Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's."
Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt.
It broke his heart.
invested with the dignity of possession.
You have to be possessive about who you love
They took him, although he loved me, and would have made me his. I wanted to be his.
Someone's.
Anyone's.
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
Don't treat me like I belong to you because, no matter what I agreed to, I am not a possession!
Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.
You can't own what belongs to the world.
If you want possessive alpha male, I can certainly comply.
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
I go out of my way to make sure you don't have any reason to feel jealous, but when you do get possessive, I like it. I want you to fight for me. I want you to care that much. I want you crazy about me. But possessiveness without trust is hell. If you don't trust me, we've got nothing.
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
You could only express ownership of a thing in terms of how freely you could give it up