In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still? — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward... — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It was two years ago that I first met Yuki. I remember that painfully thin figure covered in dirt: malnourished, exhausted and… — Kyuugou Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not… — Kelly Bartlett Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Continue with whatever it is that you have been doing, except for attachment-abhorrence. If ‘we’ stay in our state of Pure Soul,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy.… — George Lucas 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
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated… — Dalai Lama 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
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
“Life is a combo of attachment and detachment. Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical… — Paige Bradley Copy Share Image
“What a lot of people use the internet for is really about meeting their attachment needs. So on Facebook, what do people… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. — Geshe Sonam Copy Share Image
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