Quotes about attachment
attachment dear free friend heat honor pleasure remains towards
The one who remains the same towards friend or foe, in honor or disgrace, in heat or cold, in pleasure or pain; who is free from attachment is dear to me.
attachment closer diminishes object six views
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference. Adoniram Judson
attachment people detachment
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. Albert Ellis
attachment giving care
Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. David Foster Wallace
attachment desire causes
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service. David Livingstone
attachment giving doubt
This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt. David Levithan
attachment god-love
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me. Alphonsus Liguori
attachment flesh penance
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
attachment giving god-love
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
attachment creative healthy
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience. Anthony Daniels
attachment ease illusion
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Anthony de Mello
attachment anxiety tragedy
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
attachment way live-free
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. Andrew Sullivan
attachment egalitarianism degrees
Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment. Allan Bloom
attachment device french german invented name romantic though
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
attachment early emotional founders hear protective reasons sensitive technology work wrong
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.
attachment being-real unjust
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. Jane Austen
attachment essence practice
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. Bodhidharma
attachment birth clinging
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
attachment favors lasts
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor. Edward Gibbon
attachment concern emotional folks gas heard lots station
We heard that lots of folks had a concern because they had an emotional attachment to the gas station going back many years.
attachment data america
If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants. Edward Snowden
attachment history important
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.
attachment done london
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. Charles Lamb
attachment books early home music nurtured
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
attachment suffering desire
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. Benjamin Hoff
attachment attained desire fruits perfection personal selfish sensual
A person is said to have attained yogic perfection when there is no desire for sensual pleasures, or attachment to the fruits of work, and has renounced all personal selfish motives.
attachment humor leads stage tickled
In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first. Jason Mraz
attachment car emotional office operating people system
There's a different emotional attachment to Office than to Windows. The operating system is like the road, but Office is the car you drive. People have emotional attachments to their cars.
attachment perspective vision
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. Dalai Lama
attachment bound negative objects worldly
Being bound to the world with attachment to worldly objects is negative approach. Sathya Baba
attachment deep defeat eat filled fingers five meal single solving sought stomach taken wish work
Can you eat a meal with a single finger? When the five fingers work in unison, the stomach is filled in five minutes! So, no attachment should be developed; no wish is to be welcomed, nothing is to be sought for; and no defeat is to be taken to heart, without solving deep into the consequences.
attachment illusion
All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion. Rajneesh