Quotes About Attachment

That so many of us are still dying on account of ancient myths is as bewildering as it is horrible and our own attachment to these myths, whether moderate or extreme, has kept us silent in the face of developments that could ultimately destroy us. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past.

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

The greatest success in life is to feel I'm something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Ti inganni mio signore, io non amavo mio padre come amo te; il mio amore per te è un altro amore: mio padre è morto e io non sono morta, mentre se tu morissi io pure morirei.

The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.

You live alone, then?" "I do." "You have no sister, no son, no father?" "I have no one." "How can you live thus, with no one to attach you to life?

Só te tenho a ti no mundo, Haydée; por ti volto a prender-me à vida, por ti posso sofrer, por ti posso ser feliz.