Quotes About Overly Attached

#1. This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#2. If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.

Matt Mullenweg

#3. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

#4. If we become overly attached to externals, we may forget their very purpose: to purify the heart

Radhanath Swami

#5. The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.

Tim McCarthy

#6. People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#8. Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

Dante Alighieri

#10. I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

Matt Berninger

#11. The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

George Herman

#12. If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

Mary Beard

#13. Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

Oran Kangas

#14. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

#15. Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#16. If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Cynthia Lewis

#17. One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Jimmy Carter

#18. And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time.

Debalina Haldar

#19. One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

Bobby Schilling

#20. Later, given political changes and the deterioration of the world, nobody in the government thought about either arts or letters.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez