#attachment

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

#actions #attachment #convince #criterion #every

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#egotism #enlarged #fellow #fellow men #his

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. ↗

— John Hawkes

#academy award #amazing #announcement #attachment #award

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

— Andrew Sullivan

#compatible #completely #freedom #freely #homosexual

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #attachment #calls #constitution #free

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

Love without attachment is light. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#light #love #without

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. ↗

— Idries Shah

#materialism #pleasure #pride #religion #sufi

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#control #life #miserable #motivational #people