Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 300 authors

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems… — Paige Bradley
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:… — William Hazlitt
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place… — Alberto Manguel
I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the… — Isabel Lucas
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. — Thomas E. Mann
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism. — Tea Obreht
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed. — Frederick Lenz
The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to… — Frederick Lenz
When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then,… — Frederick Lenz
My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To… — Shantideva
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he… — Maximus the Confessor
I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed… — Marilyn Frye
Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to… — Marianne Williamson
Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that… — Rachel Naomi Remen
The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march… — Mahmoud Darwish

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