A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It was two years ago that I first met Yuki. I remember that painfully thin figure covered in dirt: malnourished, exhausted and… — Kyuugou Copy Share Image
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“The foundation of sansar (worldly life) is made up of attachment and abhorrence, and the foundation of Gnan (knowledge of the Self)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Attachment (raag) is also karmic stock filled in the past life (bharelo maal) and so is dispassion for worldly life (vairaagya). The… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion..… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We… — Sarah Napthali Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind… — Kathleen McDonald Copy Share Image
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders. — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“If giving my everything is what it takes, I won't hesitate, not for even a second. That's what it means to have… — Kyuugou Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment and abhorrence). This is the religion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear. If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is considered equanimity when attachment does not arise towards someone who offers flowers and abhorrence does not arise towards someone who… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
