Can do Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing,…

— Anonymous

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the…

— Epicurus

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the…

— Alain de Botton

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

— Laozi

“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow man, and,…

— Erich Fromm

In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be…

— David Deida

Youth, beauty, life, possessions, health, and the companionship of friends, all are unstable. He that is wise will never covet any of these. Do…

— Ritu Ghatourey

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to…

— E. B. White

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

— Andre Gide

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe