Lars Ulrich Quotes

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

I want to feel that I own things.

Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

Adam didn't look at him when he said, finally, "It doesn't matter how you say it. It's what you wanted, in the end. All your things in one place, all under your roof. Everything you own right where you can see.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

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.