Quotes about Attachment
If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.
- Epictetus
I love Matt Bomer.
- Chord Overstreet
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.
- Alain de Botton
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
- Pierre Corneille
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
- Stephen Hawking
I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.
- Joseph Campbell
Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.
- Joseph Campbell
Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.
- Joseph Campbell
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- AA Milne
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- AA Milne
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- AA Milne
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel