Quotes about Attachment
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
- Michael Horton
The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.
- Glenn Beck
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
- Dan Quayle
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
- CS Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world.
- CS Lewis
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Is it any wonder that I loved my regiment?
- Theodore Roosevelt
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.
- Virginia Woolf