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| Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of ATTACHMENT to results, because there follows immediate peace. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. | Dr. Robert Anthony | American educator |
| Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. | Anthony Robbins | 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant |
| Those who consciousness is unified abandon all ATTACHMENT to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| When you move amidst the world of sense, free from ATTACHMENT and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
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| The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch. | Christopher Fieldes | British Financial Journalist |
| A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. | Claude Bernard | 1813-1878, French Physiologist |
| It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting ATTACHMENT to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. | Flannery O'Connor | 1925-1964, American Author |
| There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the ATTACHMENT of friends. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| Action without a name, a ''who'' attached to it, is meaningless. | Hannah Arendt | 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher |
| Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. | Hunter S. Thompson | 1939-, American Journalist |
| If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more ATTACHMENTs on me than a vacuum cleaner. | John Barrymore | 1882-1942, American Actor |
| Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of ATTACHMENT I have are to material things. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer. | Joyce Cary | 1888-1957, British Author |
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| If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. | Judith Martin | |
| By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. | Lao-Tzu | BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching'' |
| My ATTACHMENT has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903-1987, French Novelist |
| Love without ATTACHMENT is light. | Norman O. Brown | 1913-, American Philosopher |
| Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. | Peter Levi | |
| The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. | R. Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher |
| ATTACHMENT is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. | Simone Weil | 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic |
| If you purify your soul of ATTACHMENT to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them. | St. John of the Cross | 1542-1591, Spanish Christian Mystic and Poet |
| The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. | Stephen King | 1947-, American Horror Writer, Actor |
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| Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an ATTACHMENT as that from which they draw their gains. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| ATTACHMENT to spiritual things is.. just as much an ATTACHMENT as inordinate love of anything else. | Thomas Merton | 1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet |
| Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the ATTACHMENT is scarcely perceptible. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. | Zen Saying | |
