#attach

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#attachment #control #except #freedom #gains

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#events #feelings #form #giving #inner

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy. ↗

— Jacques Santer

#great #i #importance #philosophy #speeches

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days. ↗

— David Strathairn

#be real #bell #days #film #give

People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#feel #get #give #identify #just

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ↗

— James Baldwin

#attachment #belonging #comfort #completion #fulfillment

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#attachment #believe #believe-and-achieve #companions #companionship

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

— J.K. Rowling

#destiny #hope #mother-s-love-for-son #love

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#being #conscious #development #history #matter

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ↗

— Emily Carr

#absolutely #attached #depicting #detail #every