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• Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.

  Gail Carriger

  Pigs, Two, Paris

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• Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Graduation, Worry

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Children, Race

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• I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is some way. Like, I wouldn't want to deep google Matthew McConaughey's early relationships for hours before I go to bed. And it's just gotten worse.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, People, Google

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• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Osbert Sitwell (1950). “Noble essences: a book of characters”

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• Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything.
  Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.
  We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations.
  But by meditating-by not doing anything-
  all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Thinking, Snakes, Meditation

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• The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ideas, Justice, Diversity

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• The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

  Norman Cousins

  War, Justice, Social

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• The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Track Runners, Inspirational Running

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• When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.

  Thomas Boswell

  Falling In Love, Golf, Sight

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• Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Light, Diversity

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• Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, Persistence, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.27, Penguin

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• The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

  Dionne Warwick

  People, Problem, Fame

  "This much I know: Dionne Warwick" with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

  Don Cheadle

  Opportunity, People, Obsessed

  "14 Questions With Don Cheadle". Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep, the less and less you will be a mind. Thoughts will become rare, and ultimately they cease. That doesn't mean you become unthinking; it only means that your consciousness becomes clear, transparent, without thoughts moving continuously as clouds. Whenever you need to think you can think; but now thought becomes an instrument to you, not an obsession as it is presently. Thoughts are an obsession without meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

  Denis Waitley

  Fear, Dark, May

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• Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Heart, Compassion

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• After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Freedom, Grateful

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• A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

  Ade Edmondson

  People, Looks, Obsessed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

  Richey Edwards

  Self Harm, Thinking, Knowing

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• Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.

  Susan Cheever

  Taken, Mind, Quality

  Susan Cheever (2009). “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

  Patrick Carnes

  Recovery, People, Addiction

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• All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

  Tennessee Williams

  Desire, Want, Loser

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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