Owed Quotes

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me.
I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“I’m owed nothing, but I’ve been gifted with everything. As such, I owe everything the commitment that I will never find myself treating ‘everything’ as ‘nothing’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most of our losses began the day that we began neglecting what we have now lost.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m owed anything, it would be all of the consequences that come with believing that I’m owed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Freedom is viewed as a ‘right’ to those who don’t yet understand that everything is a ‘privilege.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life doesn’t owe me. However, it liberally gifts me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wonder how different life would be if the only thing we demanded of it was the opportunity to give back to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I cannot tell you that I am owed anything. But I can tell you that I owe everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If my mentality is to spend my life seeking that which I am owed, I will spend my life seeking something that doesn’t exist. And if I’m truly that selfish, maybe that’s the outcome that I’m owed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As a child, I would sit at the top of the old towering pine and watch the world gloriously spread itself out at my feet. And it wasn’t until I climbed that tree many decades later that it dawned on me how much I have trampled that world under my feet. And so, maybe I need to do a lot more climbing and a lot less walking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough