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Owning Quotes (page 118)

Roberto Bolano quote: "Happy are those who own nothing."
Happy are those who own nothing. Roberto Bolano
Jose Rizal quote: "Vice pays for its own freedom."
Vice pays for its own freedom. Jose Rizal
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson
Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind. He said: I made the Iliad from such. A local row. Gods make their own importance. Patrick Kavanagh
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. Alain de Botton
Candace Bushnell quote: "I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion..."
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas. Candace Bushnell
Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect. Victor Hugo
No," he said in his deep, rumbling voice. "It means that you must do what you really and truly want. And nothing is more difficult."What I really and truly want? What do you mean by that?"It's your own deepest secret and you yourself don't know it."How can I find out?"By going the way of your wishes, from one to another, from first to last. It will take you to what you really and truly want."That doesn't sound so hard," said Bastian."It is the most dangerous of all journeys."Why?" Bastian... Michael Ende
What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. John Knowles
William Shakespeare quote: "to thine own self be true !!"
to thine own self be true !! William Shakespeare
Perhaps there is really nothing else when everything is falling to pieces, I think, except this bit of togetherness and even that is a sweet deception, for when someone else really needs you you cannot follow him or stand by him. I have noticed that often enough in the war when I looked into the face of a dead comrade. Each one of us has his own death and must suffer it alone; no one can help him then. Erich Maria Remarque
…the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader’s attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness. Gore Vidal
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence -- to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time. Mitch Albom
As I have reviewed the past [several] years, I have made some discoveries. One is that countless experiences I have had were not necessarily those one would consider extraordinary. In fact, at the time they transpired, they often seemed unremarkable and even ordinary. And yet, in retrospect, they enriched and blessed lives—not the least of which was my own. I would recommend this same exercise to you—namely, that you take an inventory of your life and look specifically for the blessings,... Thomas S. Monson

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