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Owning Quotes (page 86)

Stephen Covey quote: "we're responsible for our own lives."
we're responsible for our own lives. Stephen Covey
Paulo Coelho quote: "I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince..."
I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I’m capable of taking my own decision. Paulo Coelho
The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. Jean-Paul Sartre
George Orwell quote: "I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles..."
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. George Orwell
For more than three thousand million years, DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world. But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Richard Dawkins
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just... Haruki Murakami
Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt. Haruki Murakami
The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. Robert Anton Wilson
Edith Hamilton quote: "For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love..."
For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness. Edith Hamilton
Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all. Louise Bogan
All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed. Ken Kesey
William Penn quote: "Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art..."
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free. William Penn
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then..."
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling. Vladimir Nabokov
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety? Martin Luther

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