Quotes of: Attachment Keyword

The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it's great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hindui...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

When it comes to sexuality, romantic love plays a large part in feminine sexual scripts. Research suggests that women make sense of sexual encounters in terms of the amount of intimacy experienced; love becomes a rationale for sex. If i am in love, w...

Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Common Sense

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

Galileo Galilei

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

Gone with the Wind

Don’t be attached to outcomes. Enjoy your experiences for what they are, what you have gained and what you have learned.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hard...

Carol Leifer

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier ...

Jeffrey Kluger

Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a ...

Sherwin B. Nuland

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

Laurie Simmons

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Sufi Thought and Action

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

Lockdown

Dwarfs are very attached to gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a book to read while the debate goes on.

Men at Arms

It wasn't just that feeling of coming home - of being intrinsically attached to what was familiar - but more a case of being so in love with a part of the world that everything else paled in comparison.

The Secret of You