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
Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued… — Linda Hogan 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
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
“If giving my everything is what it takes, I won't hesitate, not for even a second. That's what it means to have… — Kyuugou Copy Share Image
“Children who feel that they are unloved can believe that there must be something very wrong about them which makes them unacceptable.… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“What is parigraha (acquisitiveness)? It is not really a graha (stars). If your vision is worldly, then parigraha (owning things other than… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
..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
Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image