It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people — they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Loss and sorrow are only possible with respect to things we own.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.

What you buy is what you own, and sooner or later what you own will come back to you.

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power — he's free again.

Its not until you lose everything that you can truly apreciate everything

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.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it