Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 300 authors

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive. — Felix Dennis
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. — Helen Fisher
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. — Helen Fisher
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to… — Geoff Mulgan
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. — Hanna Rosin
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.… — David Foster Wallace
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of… — George Lucas
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of… — Virginia Woolf
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever;… — Lionel Shriver
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence â€“ â€œSurely,… — Jane Austen
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment,… — Jane Austen
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. — Ram Dass
I have for the first time found what I can truly loveâ€“I have found you. You are my sympathyâ€“my better selfâ€“my good angelâ€“I am bound… — Charlotte Bronte
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. — Nhat Hanh
..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and… — Colm Toibin
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy… — Guy Finley

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