“most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.” — 14th Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit. — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
“and that feeling, that attachment I'd felt to him was no longer a hook, but an anchor buried deep in my rib… — Cora Carmack Finding It Copy Share Image
“Apart from One's own real form (swaroop), anything else that remains in memory, is attachment.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“One should never marry one’s first love, you know. Too early an attachment gives one’s feelings that much longer to grow stale… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right.… — Mark A.R. Kleiman 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
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
It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands… — Dennis Ross Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone else’s. I love you as… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“The world has not seen the equanimity (sambhaav) of the Gnanis (enlightened Ones) at all. In fact, the Gnani has a state… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Simply because a person has a more avoidant attachment style does not in and of itself make them a narcissist. Second, “avoidant”… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like?… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he… — Emily Bronte 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
I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment… — Sogyal Rinpoche 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
“Worldly life means it is ever changing. So where is the need for [worrying] ‘this will happen’ or ‘that will happen’? Why… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image