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«Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.»
Author: Claude Roy
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Love
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attachment, detachment, discomfort, discomforting, discomforts, looking at, misfortune
«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.»
«The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that control the modern world, may set it free to do the only thing that in this age it can do -to keep the neglected parts»
Author: Graham Hough
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attachment, economic power, Modern Age, modern world, neglected, political power, slightest, The Modern Age
«Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.»
Author: Ralph Marston
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attachment, benefit, crippled, cripples, crippling, in his right mind, in their right minds, judgment, let go, let go of, suddenly, unique, viewpoints
«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.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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attached, attachment, fragmented, selfishly, unified, unify, unifying
«The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.»
«We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.»
«The world is deceived and plundered by riches, youth, greed and egotism. The drug of emotional attachment has destroyed me, as it has destroyed the whole world.»
«The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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attachment, bees, crave, craved, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, flower, flowers, honey, limits, lotus, lotus flower, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, relationship, rush, rush out, search, sweetness, tasted, The Flowers
«Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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attachment, enjoyments, General The, notions, respect to, with respect to
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