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Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend...

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Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is ...

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Anthony StorrSolitude: A Return to the Self

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifti...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separ...

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The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereo...

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thought...

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Byron KatieLoving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the...

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He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

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My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter...

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Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looki...

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It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the midd...

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Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

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

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