Attachment Quotes

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

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.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

Without mortification nothing can be done.

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.