The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When entering a new relationship, set solid boundary lines and do not allow yourself to leap over them.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego. — Rajneesh 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
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven… — Laozi Copy Share Image
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring” — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not… — Leo Buscaglia 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
Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ –… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Despite knowing and seeing through the senses, if one remains free from attachment-abhorrence, it is called knowledge beyond the senses (atindriya-gnan). But… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image