Accepting Quote by Sarah Manguso

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an…

— Ana Castillo

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed…

— V. S. Pritchett

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards,…

— Jonah Goldberg

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a…

— William Crookes

I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech…

— Astra Taylor

The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey…

— Jen Lancaster

Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free…

— Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

— Momofuku Ando

“A wish without a potential is just a fixation.”

— Zinny Ekechukwu

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can…

— Dalai Lama