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
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through… — Frederick Lenz 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
“Attachment is always a barrier to real appreciation and happiness, because it’s based on the illusion that some external element can make… — Ezra Bayda Copy Share Image
The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“The whole worldly life is of the non-Self complex (pudgal). But to have attachment-abhorrence in that non-Self complex, is called karmic bondage,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all… — William Shakespeare 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
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go… — Kevin Griffin Copy Share Image
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“The moment illusion (bhranti) departs, One Knows things as they are. As illusion departs, it means the ignorance of the Self (agnan) has gone.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
“for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image