"Grief is the tax we pay on our…" — Thomas Lynch
"Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments..."
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12 Quotes by Thomas Lynch
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's…
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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
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Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the…
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There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and…
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Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we…
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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out…
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Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
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Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make…
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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies…
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If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the…
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More Attachment Quotes
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one of 516 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
— John Barrymore
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
— Mayim Bialik
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I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way…
— Mayim Bialik
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is…
— Chanakya
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
— Dan Millman
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If…
— Unknown Author
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There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence…
— Khalil Gibran
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