Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. — Sybil Adelman Copy Share Image
Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. — Momofuku Ando Copy Share Image
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation. — David Liss Copy Share Image
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals.… — Venugopal Gupta Copy Share Image
“She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The first time I watched him fight, I got hard. My heart pounded in my chest, and I chewed on my lip… — Kasia Bacon Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we… — Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's hard for your mom to tell you she has an oral fixation and has to have something in her mouth. My… — David Spade Copy Share Image
I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
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