A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I realize I'm just a silly stranger goofing with other strangers for no reason far away from anything that ever mattered to… — Jack Kerouac 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
“My-ness' is itself parigraha (possessiveness). An object is not parigraha. A Gnani (enlightened one) does not have 'my-ness', he has eternal element… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of… — John Schaar Copy Share Image
“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic caregivers are along a continuum: On one end they can be abusive and punitive; they create restrictive environments and excessive expectations… — Annie Tanasugarn, PhD Copy Share Image
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. If you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they… — Dada Bhagwan 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
THE WORST IN LIFE IS ATTACHMENT IT HURTS WHEN YOU LOSE IT. THE BEST THING IN LIFE IS LONELINESS BECAUSE IT TEACHES… — Sushan Copy Share Image
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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
