Familiarity with vice does not produce disgust, it produces attachment. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.” — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.” — Colette Copy Share Image
For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Non-attachment doesn't mean you are aloof, uncaring, or don't have things. It's about coming into right relationship with everyone and everything. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Like-dislike is a ‘discharge moha’ (illusory attachment that is dissipating and not binding new karma), while attachment-abhorrence is a ‘charge moha’ (illusory… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
“Causes for attachment are formed at the same time that abhorrence is occurring. Acquaintance up to a certain point will result in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“A child’s sense of secure attachment—this idea that I, in all my glory, as well as all my stinkiness and imperfection, am… — Susan David Copy Share Image
We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters. — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
