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"The things you used to own, now they own you."
"I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern."
"I don't own the sunset, but I have a free yearly membership to stream whenever it's on, and this is a life perk that makes me wealthy."
"Watching TV at my own time. Its beneficiary, but watching TV at its own time . Its time wasting."
"If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable."
"The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own."
"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them."
"Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self."
"A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change."
"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."
"Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military."
"At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!"
"After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them? They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon."
"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."
"I have a face where half is mine and half is not, it is hard to see a difference when you stand in front of me under the light as both my eyes shines equally. But the day you step into the darkness I hold inside me you will see my face the way it is and it will end up changing your whole world related to me forever."
"And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own."
"Every woman should have a purse of her own."
"If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them."
"The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's."
"But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
"The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in."
"Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion, it will not falter to talk back. ( "The day the mirror was talking back" )"
"Species tend to bite sometimes during the sharing of sex but we never break the skin. There are only two ways this usually happens. I had to bite you to assert my control if we fought for dominance during sex or because I wanted to mark you to show other males you belonged to me.” He blinked. “I am sorry. I lost control and I wanted to completely own you in that moment. I wanted all of you."
"Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship."
"32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I really do that much better with my own children?” The job is tougher than it looks, and mistakes are inevitable!"
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"12. There will come a day, much quicker than your parents would wish, when you will no longer be comfortable living at home. You will want to move out and establish a home of your own. After that time, your mother and father will be more like your friends than your parents. And someday, if they live long enough, you will be more like a parent to them than a son or daughter."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
"Do not depend on good motivator!Find your words of self-motivation!"
"Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own."
"We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us."
"For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement, let me assure you that you can trust this Lord of heaven and earth. Remember that Scripture warns us to “lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5)."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own."
"I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –"
"How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you."
"The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven."
"Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame."
"If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself."
"The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held."
"To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing."
"Most of the dreams that have suffered to death were murdered by their own owners."
"Let me leave you with this thought, written by my father before he died. If you incorporate it into your system of values, it will serve as a worthy guide to the management of your sexual energy: Strong desire is like a river. As long as it flows within the banks of God’s will—be the current strong or weak—all is well. But when it overruns those boundaries and seeks its own channels, then disaster lurks in the rampage below."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me."
"People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own."
Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"If I build own language... will be better because I always will end up making new words."
"I was recently inside a hospital that had gone wireless and it was a forest of microwave antennas! It is sad that the medical profession is in the process of becoming expert on microwave radiation sickness due to willfully inducing it into their own staff!"
"Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies."
"I don't own you, you just belong to me."
"You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on."
"We must be our own before we can be another's."
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