Famous Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice, meditation is better than mere knowledge, renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation, peace immediately follows the renunciation of (the attachment to) the fruit of work.

Albert Ellis

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Dalai Lama

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

Alphonsus Liguori

God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

Alphonsus Liguori

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.

Alphonsus Liguori

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

Anthony Daniels

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 de Mello

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

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.

Andrew Sullivan

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

We're constantly trying to get the 18- to 34-year-old attachment to the Olympics.

Sherry Turkle

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

Sathya Baba

No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

Edgar Allan Poe

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Aristotle

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Deepak Chopra

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Dave Pelzer

I had an attachment disorder.

She had a personal attachment to it like you wouldn't believe.

Many users will now delete an e-mail attachment that seems suspicious rather than open it up, so it has become more difficult for viruses to spread quickly.

Kirk Gibson

I grew up with Ernie Harwell. Jack Buck is, like Ernie, an icon. Of course in 1988, when he made the call, it was a special attachment that lasted a lifetime. Let's say it was well said. I couldn't believe what I just saw, either.

Bharati Mukherjee

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

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.

The beauty of our project is that we are taking something historical, something that has an emotional attachment to the community, and giving it rebirth. The sense of neighborhood and community at the Bethlehem Steel site is a good thing. We intend to be good neighbors, and we intend to create economic rejuvenation.

Suing a client can take years. Instead, for about $2,000, you may be able to get a writ of attachment within 60 days. It will bring the company back to the bargaining table.

Sathya Baba

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

David Livingstone

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 Levithan

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.

The other is less tangible -- the emotional attachment to a city or a neighborhood. There's a powerful human desire to return to that and restore that.

Monica Cruz

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

Ian Schrager

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

Kevin Mitnick

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.