“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
[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
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
If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach… — Mahita Vas Copy Share Image
Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“... in children, security or insecurity of attachment is not a characteristic of the individual, but rather of a relationship: it is… — Anonymous 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
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose;… — Piero Gheddo Copy Share Image
“The mind, speech, and body are effective, so the effect that one experiences, he believes as ‘this effect is mine’. This creates… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Attachment is the act of trying to control, manipulate, or sculpt the outside world in such a way that we lose sight… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.”… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even… — John Strachan 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 realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_3109729.jpg)
