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Attachments and bereavements are inseparable. -- Mason Cooley
Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'. -- Rajneesh
Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth. -- Suhaib Webb
When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection. -- Rainbow Rowell
With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. -- Rainbow Rowell
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence. -- Walter Kirn
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. -- Rainbow Rowell
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. -- Max Anders
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
In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that. -- Rainbow Rowell
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all. -- Martin Freeman
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. -- John Barrymore
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. -- Thomas Clarkson
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. -- Thomas E. Mann
Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least. -- Rhea Perlman
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans. -- Caroline Knapp
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art. -- Aby Rosen
I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing. -- Michael Muller
You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them. -- Cassandra Clare
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens. -- Andrew Solomon
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. -- Tom Paulin
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. -- Bede Griffiths
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 mind in danger of deteriorating. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized. -- Thomas E. Mann
Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It's when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It's just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can't do anything with them because it's a competing attachment. -- Gordon Neufeld
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. -- Samuel Adams
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
Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments. -- Ram Dass
You must choose between your attachments and happiness. -- Adyashanti
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments... -- Thomas Lynch
All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion. -- Rajneesh
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. -- Lionel Shriver
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. -- Oprah Winfrey
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. -- Sri Aurobindo
The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. -- Adi Shankara
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. -- Ram Dass
Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self. -- Mooji
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. -- Lester Levenson
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being. -- Laozi
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. -- Zhuangzi
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. -- James Franco
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. -- Lisa Alther
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. -- Jonathan Haidt
It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring -- Robyn Davidson
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. -- Benjamin Hoff
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama. -- Brad Warner
A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments. -- Swami Vivekananda
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. -- Michael Beckwith
Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison" -- Timothy Keller
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments -- Yasmin Mogahed
When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent. -- Gyalwa Dokhampa
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
Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree. -- Mooji
Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want. -- Kevin Griffin
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it -- Gautama Buddha
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness. -- Guy Finley
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens. -- Dan Millman
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery. -- Thomas Jefferson
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments. -- Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments. -- Frederick Lenz
Other people can't cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don't make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness. -- Surya Das
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. -- George Washington

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