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Image of William Hazlitt
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
- William Hazlitt
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Image of Sri Aurobindo
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
- Sri Aurobindo
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Image of Max Anders
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.
- Max Anders
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Image of Benjamin Hoff
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
- Benjamin Hoff
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Image of Shantideva
My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings.
- Shantideva
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Image of Bodhidharma
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
- Bodhidharma
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Image of Jane Austen
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Jane Austen
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of 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 Livingstone
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Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Image of Alphonsus Liguori
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
- Alphonsus Liguori
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Image of Alphonsus Liguori
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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Image of Dalai Lama
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Charles Lamb
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
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of 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
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Image of 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.
- David Levithan
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Image of 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.
- Anthony de Mello
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Image of John Quincy Adams
Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.
- John Quincy Adams
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Image of Thomas Malthus
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.
- Thomas Malthus
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Image of 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
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