It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
“The key to finding a mate who can fulfill those needs is to first fully acknowledge your need for intimacy, availability, and… — Amir Levine & Rachel S.F. Heller Copy Share Image
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“In unfavorable circumstances, kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) occur, and in favorable circumstances, more kashays occur. However, the kashays of favorable circumstances are cold. Those… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest impacts on intimacy is fear. Fears surrounding intimacy can result in a push-pull dynamic because of differing attachment… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can… — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of ‘remaining untouched in the worldly life’? It means that one finds pleasure upon seeing something nice, but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an… — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
“What is parigraha (acquisitiveness)? It is not really a graha (stars). If your vision is worldly, then parigraha (owning things other than… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
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