Quotes about Fixation

The mind feasts on what it focuses on.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.